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Stories Never Told is part of an ongoing project - a nostalgic
and often painful look-back to the history of German and French colonist
families dramatically affected by the events of the 20th century.
In all dictionaries the child is presented as a symbol of
innocence, purity, peace of mind, self confidence and natural simplicity,
associated to humankind before falling into primary sin. What lays beyond this
idyllic image? Does anyone say anything about the child’s worries and fears?!
Caught between two realities - the irreversibility of time
and the eternal return of innocent memories – the ephemeral images in Stories Never Told reveal themselves
like layers of paint on an old
fresco. These children, forever young but already withdrawn into their
own shadows, look wise and mature and seem to foresee that their destinies will be irremediably marked by
the times to come. To what stories do they listen when they go to bed? Or are
they too worried that the events of the present will follow even into the most
hidden places of childhood?
While
working on this project I started wondering if it is in fact wise to uncover
everything that happened so many years ago. The story of Orpheus, who
forever lost his beloved Euridice by turning his head and looking back, is well
known. Will these images
not be slowly covered by layer after layer of every event and sorrow that
followed? Will they not vanish forever?
Questions with no answers. An attempted return to our roots,
with no beginning and no end. Like stories never told.
Stories Never Told
digital print, 50 x 50 cm, 2012
About Me
(or „My Life Like a
Ripe Fruit”)
My French ancestors came from Parroy in the Lorraine and
settled in the Banat marshes, in the middle of the 18th century. The living
conditions were very hard and many died, especially children and newborns.
Although I have never seen the Lorraine, I miss those places so much that I
feel my heart burn. This is probably the main reason why I am currently working
on a project about my French roots. It makes me go back in time, and this is
often a very painful process.
Journalists and even friends and family wondered many times why
I had so many „windings” in my life. After I graduated an art college in
Timisoara/ Romania I studied veterinary medicine and became a veterinary
doctor. A dreamjob! I absolutely love animals and would do anything to help. I
was even close to enroll into an international aid team as medical support for
the rescue dogs. But due to health reasons, I had to quit and start all over
again – a new life, new plans, new hopes, new boundaries. For many years now I
work in the field of management. It is a good life, and fulfilling, after all.
But at a certain moment one finds himself having all these questions and doubts
about „is this ALL?” So what else could I do, other than finally returning
„home” and study arts?! It was the best decision ever.
And going back to the many questions about my career – everything
I did made me to the person I am today. With an analytic approach to reality
and the possibility to help animals, with a good basis to understand the rules
of the world I am living in, and, most of all, with a happy soul filled with images,
ready to be revealed to the public. The only regret I used to have was that it
took me a long time to „officially return to art” … But then Teodora Enache (a
well known Romanian jazz singer with whom I worked to synesthetically
„translate” her voice into images) told me
that things happen in life only when they are ready to happen. Not sooner, not
later. The fruit can be picked and enjoyed only when it is ripe.
I enjoy. 
