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1933 days

2022-2025




The weeks of 41-44, year 1960, 2024
Cyanotype on canvas, 170 x 63 x 2
                     
                        The weeks of 41-44, year 1960,
detail
The weeks of 27-30, year 1964, 2025
Cyanotype on canvas, 171 x 63 x 2 cm

                        The weeks of 27-30, year 1964
, 2025
The weeks of 31-34, year 1965, 2025
Cyanotype on canvas, 171 x 63 x 2 cm

                        The weeks of 31-34, year 1965
, detail
The weeks of 19-22, year 1962, 2025
Cyanotype on canvas, 171 x 63 x 2 cm

                      The weeks of 19-22, year 1962
, detail
The weeks of 12-15, year 1966, 2024
Cyanotype on canvas, 2024, 171 x 63 x 2 cm

                    The weeks of 12-15, year 1966
, detail
The weeks of 7-10, year 1959, 2025
Cyanotype on canvas, 89 x 160 x 2 cm

The weeks of 7-10, year 1959, detail
The weeks of 21-22, year 1963, 2024
Cyanotype on canvas, 30 x 160 x 2 cm
        The weeks of 21-22, year 1963, detail
The weeks of 3-4, year 1960, 2024
Cyanotype on canvas, 30 x 160 x 2 cm
    The weeks of 3-4, year 1960, detail
The weeks of 32-33, year 1960, 2024
Cyanotype on canvas, 30 x 162 x 2 cm
        The weeks of 32-33, year 1960, detail
The weeks of 21-22, year 1959, 2024
Cyanotype on canvas, 30 x 162 x 2 cm
         The weeks of 21-22, year 1959, detail
The weeks of 40-41, year 1959, 2025
Cyanotype on canvas, 30 x 162 x 2 cm
        The weeks of 40-41, year 1959, detail
Day 8, 2022
Cyanotype on Hahnemühle platinum rag, approximately 
75 x 53 cm
English translation of the text: ‘Costache Constantin is a 
recalcitrant and hostile legionary’
Day 273, 2022
Cyanotype on Hahnemühle platinum rag, approximately 
75 x 53 cm
English translation of the text: ‘The source disclosed that he did not 
threaten "I'll have your neck"’
Day 697, 2022
Cyanotype on Hahnemühle platinum rag, approximately 
75 x 53 cm
English translation of the text: ‘His direction in Bucharest on 12.11.1966 
has appropriate behaviour’
Day 1709, 2022
Cyanotype on Hahnemühle platinum rag, approximately 
75 x 53 cm
English translation of the text: ‘Exploited and condemned was Costache 
with a post in the PCR’
Day 24, 2022
Cyanotype on Hahnemühle platinum rag, approximately 
75 x 53 cm
English translation of the text: ‘Stalin Unit arithmetically checked the 
missing inventory’
Day 1914, 2022,
Cyanotype on Hahnemühle platinum rag, approximately 
75 x 53 cm
English translation of the text: ‘In the restaurant it was established that Costache was in the 
counterrevolutionary gangs’
Day 967, 2022
Cyanotype on Hahnemühle platinum rag, approximately 
75 x 53 cm
English translation of the text: ‘Was abroad and arrived 
on the evening of April 8’
Day 478, 2022
Cyanotype on Hahnemühle platinum rag, approximately 
75 x 53 cm
English translation of the text: ‘Secret to Constantine his son 
is with his relatives abroad’
Day 15, 2022
Cyanotype on Hahnemühle platinum rag, approximately 75 x 53 cm
English translation of the text: ‘Let's go by train 
to two flocks of sheep’
Day 1803, 2022
Cyanotype on Hahnemühle platinum rag, approximately 75 x 53 cm
English translation of the text: ‘Before he would telephone that he would 
have the guns that night
Day 787, 2022
Cyanotype on Hahnemühle platinum rag, approximately 75 x 53 cm
English translation of the text: ‘After interrogation he ordered 
that the process was wrong’



Concept


Is a series of works in which I took as source of inspiration my grandpas secret files from the communism archives. To give a bit of context, my grandpa was imprisoned during 59’-64’, when he was 23 years old, by the Securitate (communist police) for the reason that he wanted to join the people who were against the regime, who were living in the mountains at that time. He never reached the destination, they caught him in the train, because one of his friends was a secret informer for the police and snitched him.

The works aim to capture the trace of that period from his life, to capture the trace of a moment that existed and that even after he is no longer with us, that trace of his life will still remain. Using cyanotype as a way to capture the trace of the documents, to preserve their imprint, their shadow. The fragmentation of the text or the covering of it, is used as a way to mentain the original secrecy trace of te documents. 


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