This series consists of generic portraits of ordinary citizens like myself, for whom safety is synonymous with normality. These are individuals who have not experienced violence directly and who live with the implicit belief that violence belongs to others, somewhere distant and abstract. The works originate as extremely small drawings, intimate and fragile in scale. As each drawing is subjected to a gradual process of physical destruction, the stages of this transformation are carefully photographed. The resulting images are then printed at a very large scale, amplifying both the material vulnerability of the original drawings and the latent tension between perceived safety and underlying fragility.
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