Mona Vatamanu and Florin Tudor are an artistic duo that explore post-communist conditions, extending beyond their native Romania. Collaborating since 2000, their multidisciplinary practice includes installation, painting, photography, and film, focusing on the formal manifestations and shifts in ideologies, both communist and capitalist. They critically engage with the politics of memory, examining the material and symbolic remnants of these ideologies, and addressing the violence inherent in historical transformations. Belonging to a generation shaped by Romania's Ceausescu regime and the 1989 Revolution, their work reflects the disillusionment and ideological struggles that followed. Their generation played a key role in establishing Romania's dominant ideological framework, rooted in anticommunism, which often rejects progressive social ideas and critically negotiates the country’s communist past. In contrast, Vatamanu and Tudor stand out for their universal perspective, revisiting and questioning these historical narratives, and positioning their work within a broader, global context beyond Romanian culture.