Andrei Nacu

Captive in Mobility

November 14 - December 16, 2026

"Captive in Mobility" investigates the effects of digitalization on labor and collective identities in the contemporary economy, focusing on the analysis of gig economy work and the phenomenon of platformization. Coordinated by artist Andrei Nacu, the exhibition examines how digitalization contributes to the atomization of individuals and the dissolution of collective subjectivities, with an emphasis on food delivery workers.

In the gig economy, food delivery workers exemplify precarious labor, lacking rights such as social protection or job security, and are often isolated by digital technologies and competition from platforms like Uber Eats and Glovo.

Starting from individual portraits of food delivery workers, Andrei Nacu composes a group photograph, through an artistic and political gesture. The group representation becomes a space for recovery and projection of a collectivity lost in the face of algorithms and applications, an attempt to imagine forms of solidarity and collective subjectivities in the era of platformization.

The project proposes the use of group photography to create new collective subjectivities, reclaiming the social and symbolic space lost to platformization. Inspired by Ariella Azoulay's concept of "potential history," group photography challenges digital separation and control. This project seeks to recover these fragments through visual art, constructing collective images that transcend the boundaries imposed by digitalization.

Exhibition on billboards

locations:
Calea Victoriei - BCR (2)
Dimitrie Cantemir 15A int. Marasesti spre Piata Unirii
Tineretului int. Gh. Sincai 2
Splaiul Unirii int. Marasesti

Project co-financed by AFCN
The project does not necessarily represent the position of the National Cultural Fund Administration. AFCN is not responsible for the content of the project or how the project results may be used. These are entirely the responsibility of the funding recipient.