Mădălin Mărienuț | Wounded Light
Schedule
Sat Jul 27 2024 at 06:00 pm
Location
Camera | Cluj-napoca, CJ
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Wounded light (ongoing)Using specific investigative techniques in forensics, the project attempts to investigate the recent past of the Jiu Valley, an area rich in natural resources that has been exploited for over a century and a half. The mining center experienced a decline during the years of communism as a result of some economic decisions not adapted to reality, accelerated in the 90s when the miners, manipulated by the political elite, became a force in Mineriada, distancing Romania from Western Europe for a long time.
The theme of the project brings to the fore the organic relationship of the miners with the darkness of the work space and with the fragility of their own life in the face of imminent death at every entrance to the shaft. Through this routine, the surface area becomes a metaphor for how to relate to life and death.
As Florin Oprescu mentions in the preface of Wounded lIght album, ”…Look patiently and openly at Mădălin’s photographs. His sequences are cutouts from the present towards the past, retrospections to a world, which apparently does not have anything in common with ours. Apparently, they have a historical function, remembering a social event from many years ago, from the democratic youth of Romania. Mineriada”
Mădălin Mărienuț is a photographer and the initiator of the cultural-educational project Image. Sound. 89', whose purpose is to keep alive the memory of the 1989 Romanian Revolution among young people through the visual arts. Involved in the local community through curatorial projects such as Interfoto 2021 Academic, the group exhibitions Places near us and IMAGO, Visions in transition, the collective exhibition Interfoto Ukraine 2022, and Peru, the eternal present 2023, in collaboration with the Peruvian Embassy in Romania, Mădălin has a portfolio participation in international exhibitions, starting from collective exhibitions in Istanbul (2014), INTERFOTO in Pirmasens, Germany (2015), RECLAIM PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL, Birmingham Museum, UK (2015) and last but not least the exhibition Balkans today. The present of a wounded landscape in Athens, Greece (2020) as well as national exhibitions in Timișoara, Arad, Oradea, Craiova and Bucharest. In terms of personal exhibitions, we recall SURVEILLANCE SOCIETY 2017, ATHENS 2018 and Like I was a spectator 2019 all at the Void Gallery in Athens, Morphology of power at RCI Gallery Vienna 2019 and last but not least Wounded Light 2021, at the University of Vienna and RCI Gallery Vienna. Member of juries at photography competitions such as Places near us in the period 2020-2023, Heritage up close 2022, European Identity and Citizenship UNITA 2022 but also in the Timișoara incognito - Free from stereotypes organized by the Timișoara 2023 Association - European Capital of Culture. Between September-November 2024 Madalin will organize INTERFOTO 8.0 - INTERGENERATIONAL, a far-reaching educational and cultural event where analog photography meets Artificial Intelligence. At the moment he is working as a photography teacher at the WUT - Arts and Design Faculty in Timișoara, Romania.
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Where is it happening?
Camera, Albert Einstein 6,Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
