I am interested in a conflicting area, apparently commonplace, apparantely meaningless. My interest is allusively tending towards social (with vague political notes), in this moment Romanian contemporary society constituting my main material of analysis, a society situated in a political and cultural inconguruence, a society that makes the transition from a mentality to another, from a political regime to another, from a culture to another. The subjects which preocuppied me lately are the “worker” and the “new man”. Being considered before ’89 “the pillar of society”, the worker was the image on which a political regime was built, obviously this being reflected in the art of that time – the so-called socialist realism. Now the worker benefits of protection equipment at European standards, and his role in society is less visible. Actually, in the collective mind it happens a transparent superposition of the new image of the worker on the top of the old one. “The New Man”, this utopic concept of the communist era has for me completely different meaning in the Romanian space. The urban population of Romania goes beyond 50%, and this fact is due to the forced transmutation of population from the rural areas to the cities, in the communist period. This way, a hybrid category is created and lives in the urban space, but does not posess the urban values except to a very small extent, or associates them with the folk tradition. This is where the conflict, the incongruence appear.