bluebird
Inspired by Dark Romanticism, I built an associative narrative based on the poem ‘Blue Bird’ by Charles Bukowski and on the biography of Virginia Woolf, who committed suicide by drowning in a river near her house. I imagined a young woman’s repeated encounters and returns to the water as a tempting element in her pending decision whether to drown or not.
The images in the book make several references to the motive of the water and the feminine, either through the presence of the woman herself or in a rather abstract way. These images are intertwined with landscapes, leaning on the romantic idea that nature reflects the inner state of the human being.
Diary (Prague)
While I was travelling, I started to write short texts or observations about the people on my route. I liked the idea of chance encounters and peripheral events, so I took all 19 tram lines in Prague, from one end to the other, and photographed the people who sat in front of me for a month. People were riding the tram to get somewhere; their goal was to reach a destination, not the tram itself. While being there, they were killing time, and their minds were wandering. Nothing would typically happen.
So, I turned the whole process around - I made the ride itself the purpose of the journey and not its destination. This non-event would be the event for me. I was interested in the vulnerability of the moment, in the fact that I am stepping on some boundaries while photographing people in a vulnerable pose and taking something from them without their consent [the photo]. I consider this work a series of portraits, even though we only see the back of their heads, for there is enough information to read who these people might be. (Prague, 2015)
Das Mögliche Salzburg Tagebuch (2021)
This work was made by drawing on my artistic research methods to create a city diary of Salzburg. It includes my encounters with the people, language, and food there, as well as my memories of Bucharest, sometimes invoked by familiar sounds or tastes.
This video was made in the context of the Image and Background course given by Leon Kahane at the International Summer Academy of Arts in Salzburg (AT).