Razvan Ion - hidden_identities - photography, videography, video
curated by Dana Altman, New York
The International Center for Contemporary Art, SPACE Gallery, is pleased to present the photography, videography and video exhibition of the artist Razvan Ion in the period May 9 - 30, 2003. The new series of photographs by Razvan Ion, hidden_identities, expresses his permanent search for the hidden self, the identity threatened by a world of ready-made symbols. His photographs are fragments of an intensely lyrical, sad reality, raising dramatic questions about the role of the artist in a world where conventionality is the rule and truth is just a hollow dictionary definition. The permanent play between clarity and blur serves as a powerful technique to accentuate the conceptual structure of his photography. The result is an image of disturbing beauty, haunting the viewer with its unanswered questions. His new series of images represents the history of personal introspection, a narrative where the artist is the main character, looking for a new personal identity, which must be uncovered step by step, by discarding redundant detail and looking for authenticity. The multiple artistic identities, which reveal facets of daily experience, are apparently invisible but in fact codes that can help decode this complex and multilayered universe.
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