Born in Bucharest, Romania, 1988
Lives and works in Bucharest.
2020-2021, PostGraduate, HISK, Gent, Belgium
2013-2015, MFA, UNARTE, Bucharest, Romania (master student of Iosif Kiraly)
2010-2013, BFA, UNARTE, Bucharest, Romania
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Gherca’s recent works (2020–present), investigate what might be described as the architecture of technological belief: the cities, institutions and infrastructures through which imagined futures become political, economic and material realities. These works are not concerned with predicting whether technology will ultimately improve or diminish society. Instead, they reflect on a more enduring condition of human history: our collective imagination has repeatedly transformed the world faster than our collective understanding has been able to keep pace.
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Prior to his current practice (between 2010 and 2019) he worked on different projects that document the social and economic shifts that occurred as a result of the Romanian Revolution and the country's EU membership. Some of the main subjects of his earlier works include marginalized groups living in a maze of underground tunnels in Bucharest ("Tunnels and Pipes" 2011-2015) or the decay of communist working-class neighbourhoods in Romania ("A Diagram of Utopia" 2014-2017).