ARTIST STATEMENT

People are “visual beings”. The way in which we ground on sight seems to be also the way in which we navigate the world and react to what is around us. Yet our honest self is closed to the eye. Upon contact, we create a surface and project our identity there for others to interact with, a surface created by the closure between people.

 Most of my work is a study on the way the identity of another is perceived, the identity of that surface; a study on how empathy and intuition can or cannot create a bridge of communication, against frustrations that fool ration and genuine emotions , giving the feeling of a second identity-surface.  But man isn’t exclusively guided by sight. Smell and specially hearing are sensitive to the changes that occur over time to the feelings created by what we once perceived. What I’m most interested in is how the perception of another person changes in depth by altering the elements that our senses react to. If, for example, we are shown an abstract image that is supposedly the portrait of a person we know, but without enough visual clues to recognize him/her, wouldn’t the sound of that person’s voice be suddenly all-revealing? Consciously using (or not using) elements of visual language, other senses might be of aid — creating a form of “imaginary vision”. When the eye is made to doubt, sound may untangle [the mind.]

BIOGRAPHY

I am a Romanian artist, based in Bucharest. My main interests revolve around photography and the barely existent boundaries between painting and argentic photography or other alternative techniques. I am also interested in how the perception of another changes once the normal elements of communication are shuffled. I officially studied Painting at the University and, unofficially spent most of my time in the photographic lab, be it the one from the Scenography department, be it  the one from the Photography department (I must admit, though, my favourite one was at the University in France, a mammoth beautiful lab!). Now, I have a little lab of my own and I also spend a lot of time in an Alternative Photographic Hub (Allkimik / Fotohub, Bucharest), trying to get the hang of old techniques, like the ambrotype, the tintype or the daguerrotype. I am also interested in the way time makes the matter react and how similar matter and emotionality react to one another.