this is a short story relating of my personal itineraries when I used to study in Belgrade, have fun..
http://www.ecoledumagasin.com/session15/errances_photo_15x45_mm.html

There is another project realized by Ghenadie Popescu, artist from Moldova, who currently takes part in the project proposed by session15 of Ecole du Magasin from Grenoble:
http://www.ecoledumagasin.com/session15/index_unpasdecote_circuler_chroniques_popescu.html

The Popescu Chronicles present a bicycle trip across Europe currently realized by the artist Ghenadie Popescu. After leaving Chisinau, Moldova, at the end of May the artist’s itinerary throughout various countries in Europe is determined by his various encounters and traffic conditions along the way. Everyday, Ghenadie Popescu is sending by various possible means — mobile phone, fax, email, post or telegram — one or several messages to Grenoble recounting his travel impressions. Once collected and displayed, these messages make up a daily chronicle, The Popescu Chronicles, a kind of log, whose content is voluntarily “offbeat” regarding the epic nature such a trip might convey.
Both physical and conceptual, his trip gradually reveals a dual geography: on the one hand, the territorial and political realities of the countries he passes through and, on the other, the more reflexive and subjective geographical experience, arising from his own circulation within these spaces. His messages convey a dual perspective and lead the viewer to project his or her own imaginary cartography. Ultimately, by choosing to circulate by bicycle, the artist reveals his engagement of “slow” resistance, a silent protest in the face of the world’s acceleration.

Ghenadie POPESCU lives and works in Chişinău
During the 90`s the artist performed several actions – bicycle trips, that in the former context of post-soviet Moldova should be perceived as acts of personal will with a strong potential. Illustrating the relatively accessible openness resulting in the collapse of the communist regime, one of his trips, to Hungary, realized with only 20 US Dollars in his pocket, had the Modern and Contemporary Art Museums in Budapest as the final destination. Afterwards, because of the closure of the borders, shortly after they opened, he couldn’t afford it anymore with exception of going to Romania and Ukraine.
Today Ghenadie Popescu works as an artist building his discourse with the help of images, objects and texts. Full of irony, his works question the ambiguous space continuously reshaped by the new realities of a reborn state lost in between 2 different ideological systems.
more info at:
http://www.ecoledumagasin.com/session15/index_unpasdecote_circuler.html