Piata Rosa Luxemburg, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Periferic 8 Biennal, Art as Gift, 2008 / Infopoint of the biennial designed by architect Markus Bader, Raumlabor

Piata Rosa Luxemburg tries to fulfill the function of a public square where people from all generations can gather and discuss. We were thinking on this space as a metaphor for a utopian place, a temporary square which can migrate in different places in the city underlying the necessity of public spaces in the frame of community and acting as a catalyst for social awareness. We choose Rosa Luxemburg as a symbol for hope and by placing her texts about peace, freedom and social equality on the walls of the structure we wanted to comment if after the failure of socialism in our country we could still afford to think in a utopian way.

We continued this project by making a sculpture documenting a demolished monument. We asked a student in architecture (Alexandru Camil Isan, University of Architecture Bucharest) to construct a model of the demolished memorial of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in Berlin.
The student had to reinvent lost parts of the monument from the information we had from pictures found on internet.