Filip Caranica works at the intersection of sound, video, 3D animation, and installation. His work brings image and sound together in immersive environments where the boundaries between hearing and seeing become increasingly fluid.

Drawing on the expressive potential of resonance, rhythm, and movement, Caranica creates surreal and uncanny worlds in which everyday objects seem to acquire a life of their own. His works explore the shifting relationship between presence and absence, materiality and immateriality, and the ways in which sound shapes our experience of the world around us.

CRYONIC HONKY TONK (HD video, 1’, seamless loop, 2023) is the first work in HITS AND HABITS, a series of 3D-animated audiovisual works in which the sounds of discarded everyday objects bring them back to life as self-playing posthuman musical instruments. Caranica invites us to consider sound as something that, although produced by physical bodies and objects, can detach itself from them and continue to unfold through resonance.

Through the displacement of everyday objects, their resonant spaces, and the varying degrees of blur of a second observer in the background, HITS AND HABITS creates a rhythmic interplay of presence and absence—of humans, objects, and their sounds.

Filip Caranica was born in Bucharest and lives between Berlin and Groningen. After studying composition in Berlin and Paris, he developed his artistic practice through long-term collaborations with visual artists, positioning himself between sonic and visual disciplines. He understands this in-between position as closely connected to his own biography. Growing up as a refugee, he learned to navigate cultural, emotional, and material uncertainty by embracing a condition of in-betweenness.

He is the founder of Contemporary Sound, a platform dedicated to sonic practices within contemporary art.

His work has been presented at Kunstverein Braunschweig, Sophiensaele Berlin, Very Berlin, Mousonturm Frankfurt, NKR Düsseldorf, ParkLake Bucharest, and Künstlerhaus Bregenz (forthcoming, October 2026).