Andra Ursuta, Vandal Lust

Yves Klein, Buster Keaton and the numb-nuts from Jackass are some of the influences channeled by this Romanian artist for her latest show. It consists of a single sculpture based loosely on Ilya Kabakov’s 1984 installation, The Man Who Flew Into Space from His Apartment. Ursata depicts the "aftermath" of her attempt to hurl herself into outer space using a medieval trebuchet—a metaphor, actually, for the small distance that exists between self-invention and self-destruction.