The starting point for “Still Untitled” is my long-standing practice in photographing artworks, guided by the principle that a photograph of an artwork should not be considered an artwork itself.
For this series, I created unstable and/or ephemeral objects and structures solely to be photographed. These objects and structures are constructed directly in front of the camera lens and are made in such a way that they achieve three-dimensional coherence only in their two-dimensional photographic representation.
It’s a reversed process. In art reproductions, the photograph aims to hide its presence, functioning like a window through which the artwork is viewed. In these photographs, the subject is volatile, and its representation is the artwork.
Still Untitled #03, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #04 digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #02, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #05, digital photograph, 2026Still Untitled #06, digital photograph, 2026Still Untitled #21, digital photograph, 2026Still Untitled #22, digital photograph, 2026Still Untitled #01, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #41, digital photograph, 2026Still Untitled #42, digital photograph, 2026Still Untitled #43, digital photograph, 2026Still Untitled #44, digital photograph, 2026Still Untitled #45, digital photograph, 2026Still Untitled #46, digital photograph, 2026Still Untitled #26, digital photograph, 2026Still Untitledm #25, digital photograph, 2026Still Untitled #47 digital photograph, 2026Still Untitled #48, digital photograph, 2026Still Untitled #49, digital photograph, 2026Still Untitled #13, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #50, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #12, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #11, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #51, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #52, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #53, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #54, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #55, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #56, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #57, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #58, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #23, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #59, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #33, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #34, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #31, digital photograph, 2026Still Untitled #60, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #61, digital photograph, 2026Still Untitled #35, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #32, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #62, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #63, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #64, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #65, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #66, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #67, digital photograph, 2024Still Untitled #68, digital photograph, 2026Still Untitled #69, digital photograph, 2026Still Untitled #70, digital photograph, 2026Still Untitled #71, digital photograph, 2026
An instant picture aspires to tell a long story, to show things that are not actually inside the frame, that are not there and then. Sometime it succeed in this, even if the long story is just a fiction.
Here I tried to build fictions that look like instant pictures.
Strada Sperantei, 2008Clinceni, 2008Eternal Flame, 2008Paralia Fakistra, 2009Cismigiu Garden, 2009Strandul Regie, 2009Fantana Zodiac, 2009Cascada Urlatoare, 2009Strandul Regie, 2009Strandul Regie, 2009Lipscani 1, 2008Lipscani 2, 2008Mylopotamos Beach, 2008Bucegi, 2009Clinceni, 2008Agia Saranda Beach, 2010Berlin, 2008Berlin, 2008Mylopotamos Beach, 2010Cismigiu Garden, 2011Berlin, 2008The Photographs I Wish I Taken, 2/3Gallery, 2024, instalation viewThe Photographs I Wish I Taken, 2/3Gallery, 2024, instalation viewThe Photographs I Wish I Taken, 2/3Gallery, 2024, instalation viewThe Photographs I Wish I Taken, 2/3Gallery, 2024, instalation viewThe Photographs I Wish I Taken, 2/3Gallery, 2024, instalation view