Here & Now

This type of element also works as a direct reference to our typical vacations at the Black Sea. At the same time being some structural elements very specific to the communist period in Romania, they also refer to this soviet ghost that seems to haunt Eastern Europe once again. Even if it's a collage, there are some clear signs that the image is located in an East European Country such as Romania, as you can see from the specific buildings in the background. All these concrete urban landscapes that I used in this series of works (including "Urban Jungle 2022. Thunders in the East" which Jindrich bought)  are also aimed to show to some extent, my origin as an artist. Through this kind of landscape, I’m operating with a dark optimism which describes the historical but also the current situation in Eastern Europe.

The way the character poses in the image, refers to John Berger's book, "Ways of Seeing", which analyzes how the human perception of the image has changed over the centuries. In this context, I am interested in how the image is currently perceived in an age of images, whether we’re talking about press, advertising, or informal images from social networks, especially Instagram. Considering how social networks changed our perception of the image in recent years, sometimes we seem distracted or even ignorant or superficial to the daily events that have a major impact on our lives (in this case the storm on the horizon, against which the human figure casually poses)"