Andra Ursuta’s artwork (born in 1979, lives and works in New York) entitled Stoner (2013) deals with violence that occurs against women, notably through stoning. It features a flesh-colored wall strewn with long, black clumps of hair targeted by a machine that normally shoots baseballsthat here have here been replaced by imitation stones. In this darkly humorous work, the artist also makes reference to the archaic tradition of walling living humans in the foundations of new buildings in order to guarantee their durability and to ward off bad luck. Andra Ursuta creates works that draw on her fears and her history. Reacting to crisis situations that she finds in international news stories (domestic violence, terrorist attacks, discovery of mass graves…) she still manages to avoid dealing frontally with horror. Subtly and mysteriously, she brings the visitor face to face with the darker side of humanity.