AURORA KIRÁLY
  • Projects
    • Photography >
      • Architecture. Patterns. Self-Portraits, 2022
      • Stillness Studies at Villa Empain, 2022
      • History. Pain. Dust, 2022
      • Viewfinder. Diffraction, 2021
      • Viewfinder Clash, 2020-2021
      • Soft Drawings, 2021
      • Subconscious Narratives, 2021
      • Equal. Art and Feminism in Nowadays Romania, 2016
      • Reconnection, 2015-2016
      • Red Light / Green Light, 2014
      • Failed Re-enactement of Claude Cahun's Medusa, 2013
      • The Red Dress, 2001
      • Feminine Archeology, 2000
      • Kaleidoscope. Selfportrait, 1998
      • Untitled, 1997
      • Melancholia series, 1997-1999
    • Paintings >
      • Héroïnes, 2013-2021
      • Tales from a Topographic Skin, 2013
      • Claude Cahun Revisited, 2012
    • Drawings >
      • Structures, 2018
      • Viewfinder Mock-Up, 2016-ongoing
      • Viewfinder, 2014-2015
    • Textile Works >
      • How You Remember Space & Architecture (working title), 2022
      • Ideas Come & Go, 2022
      • Walking, Breathing, 2021
      • Soft Drawings _ Subconscious Narratives - Fountain, 2021
      • Soft Drawings _ Subconscious Narratives, 2020-2021
      • 50s or Soft Despair, 2020
      • ​Ee um fah um soo Foo suii too eem oo…, 2018
    • Mixed media / Objects / Installations >
      • Settings, 2018
      • News Remix, 2016-2017
      • Life-Love-Memory, 2016
      • News Convertor, 2016
      • Drifting..., 2016
      • Untitled_Mixed Diary, 2013
    • Artist Books >
      • Diary Study #1_April-June 2016
    • Research/Documentary projects >
      • WITNESSES XXI – REVISITING THE PAST project presentation, 2007-2012 >
        • Interview with Ion Grigorescu, by Magda Radu
        • Interview with Geta Brătescu, by Magda Radu
        • Interview with Peter Jacobi, by Oana Tănase
        • Interview with Constantin Flondor, by Oana Tănase
        • Interview with Gheorghe Vida, by Magda Radu
        • Interview with Ioana Vlasiu, by Magda Radu
        • Interview with Alexandra Titu, by Cristiana Radu
        • Interview with Wanda Mihuleac, by Cristiana Radu
        • Interview with Mihai Oroveanu, by Oana Tănase
        • Interview with Mircea Florian, by Raluca Nestor
        • Interview with Magda Cârneci, by Cristiana Radu
  • News / Archive
    • Paris Photo Fair with Anca Poterașu Gallery, 2022
    • Paris Photo Fair with Anca Poterașu Gallery, 2021
    • from somewhere other than myself @ Anca Poterașu Gallery, 2021
    • The Show That Never Was @ Anca Poterașu Gallery, 2021
    • Corsets Then & Now @Zina Gallery, 2020-2021
    • Xplore Festival #15 @ WASP, 2020
    • ARCO Madrid - Booth 9G02
    • Ex-East. Past and recent stories of the Romanian avant-gardes, Espace Niemeyer, Paris; 2019
    • At Different Angles @MNAC Bucharest, 2018
    • Conjectures @Anca Poterașu Spinnerei Leipzig, 2018
    • Orient / Something in Between, BOZAR, Bruxelles, 2018
    • Woman, All Too Woman @Art Museum Timișoara, 2018
    • Constructed Geometries @ Anca Poterașu Gallery, 2017
    • Ex Future @ Arcub, 2016
    • Our History about the Others @ Scena9, 2016
    • Girls with Ideas [Boys and Paintings] @ Lateral Art Space, 2016
    • Reality Check @ Calina Gallery_March 2016
    • Finalist FID Prize_March 2016
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VIEWFINDER
2014 - ongoing
charcoal on paper, cardboard, photography
50,5x72cm

​One of the challenges of this series was making variable drawings, where one can periodically interfere and change the work with simple folding, openings, closings that can alter the assembly.

Inspired by some contemporary writings on memory (e.g. Daniel Schacter’s book "The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers", Mariner Books, 2002), this project also refers on how our memory works. Each time we make the process of remembering we enrich our memories by adding or excluding aspects, according to our recent experience, intellectual background, emotional state, context, etc.
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With this series I revisit, from the present perspective, photographs that I took almost two decades ago. The viewfinder is a device on the camera that allows the user to select what the end image will show. Using a similar temporal viewfinder, I re-frame photographic fragments from a past reality into an abstract recent fiction.
This joining explores multiple parameters: the way in which an image from the past is perceived in the present, different ways in which one can capture a situation using photography or drawing, the tactility of the surfaces, the relation between bi and tridimensional, etc.

The powerful lines and the architectural plans of the assembly make predominant use of folding with a double justification: the modal fold, as an extension of modulating photography into drawing and vice versa, and the functional fold as an articulation between bi and tridimensional.
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It’s almost as if someone from the past is trying to imitate future technology using the means and materials within their reach. What comes out is a simulacrum of that technology, a „cheap imitation” à la John Cage. But at the same time, the work becomes an intimate, naïve and pauper object that is profoundly subjective and humanized. Through the narrow slit of the double fold, "Viewfinder" series is an invitation to voyeurism and an upside-down skeuomorphism.
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