"EROSION: Work by Leonard Ursachi"

The work of Leonard Ursachi, a Romanian expat who lives and works in Brooklyn, often dwells upon themes of trauma and loss, and in this exhibition, he relies on childhood memories of visiting Ada Kaleh, an island enclave in the Danube that was once situated on the border between Romania and Serbia before being submerged by a hydroelectric dam project in the 1970s. A once-thriving multicultural community, Ada Kaleh was wiped off the map, its inhabitants forced to move elsewhere. Ursachi revisits it here in a series of glittery works on paper, and in a large table top model, cast in clear resin, showing the hamlet settled placidly under the river. Crystalline and ghostly, Ada Kaleh appears as if it were both present and not—much as its remains beneath the Danube are, in fact. The show also includes a large outdoor sculpture, What a Wonderful World, which critiques the for-profit motif behind environmental destruction.