portraits – Alexandru Paul

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.