2023 — Romania
About this series
The photographic series Autopsy of Forgetting explores memory – a sometimes distorted, often incomplete reconstruction of the past.
Through an experimental process, I break down the original representation of Polaroid frames. With its removal from the original surface, the Polaroid emulsion reaches a fluid state, and its transfer to another surface creates destruction. The ethereal traces of the past, however, transform into a new image.
Photographer: Ioana Rusu
Nationality: Romanian
Based in: Romania
Instagram: @ioanaaa.rs
I am a visual artist from Iași, Romania. My artistic practice gravitates between two extremes: reality and fiction, contextualizing some elements or events corresponding to
everyday life on a constructed territory.
I focus on how the human mind perceives the outside and distort reality, influenced by their own experiences. My research subjects search around the relationship between memory, behavior and imagination. I approach post- photography, installation and video medium as tools of expression or shaping of human perceptions.
EDUCATION
Master: Photography and Video Art
George Enescu University of Arts, Iasi, Photography and videoart, 2022 -2024
Master: New Technology of Arts
Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, oct 2023 – feb 2024
Bachelor: Photography, video and image processing
George Enescu University of Arts, Iasi, Faculty of Arts Iasi, 2019 -2022
Color grading workshop
LUNO Studio 2023
New media workshop
New Media Jam 2024
EXHIBITIONS
• Indefine Places, Aparte Gallery, Iași, 2021
• Imperceptible, Aparte Gallery, Iași, 2021
• VIDEO 3/LAN-a network of unpredictable behaviours, Aparte Gallery, Iași, 2022
• Photo-Video Alumni Exhibition, Victoria Gallery, Iasi, 2023
• White Night of the Galleries, “Temporal Interstices. Private situations”, Iași, 2022
• A space of her own, Tranzit Gallery, Iași, 2023
• Atelier 35, Gallery Nicolae Tonitza Gallery, Iași, 2023
• Tell a Story or it goes…, MATCA, Cluj Napoca, 2023
• Strange Times and Improbable Encounters, Täbăcarilor Bastion,Targu Mures, 2023
• Strategies of Disappearance, Aparte Gallery, Iasi, 2023
• Fabulating About a Gelato Machine, Braşov Art Museum, Brașov 2023
• In limbo: Navigating the states in-between, TÉR, Odorheiu Secuiesc, 2024
• Grupaj 3rd issue, Camera Cluj 2024
WORK HISTORY
Accelerator Braşov – Mentorship Program