Rescrierea Secventei/ Overriding Sequence
Mihai Barabancea
Asociatia Pentru Arta Ilfoveanu
Romanian and English
Softcover
256 pages
160 x 210 mm
2014
ISBN 9789730178623
Overriding Sequence captures a grotesque and overwhelming sense of emotion. Barabancea’s photos showcase drug users, prostitutes, and homeless subjects largely in moments of shock. His guerilla-style photography does not focus on beautifying the circumstances but captures the essence of the moment instead. Despite the surreal nature of the photography, his work has a factual quality, with its use of film and coarse framing. It is simultaneously both sickening and liberating.
About the Artist
Mihai Barabancea (b. 1983, Bucharest) is a Bucharest based photographer. Barabancea made quite a splash in Romania back in the late 1990s when he appeared on TV as a member of a graffiti gang. In 2018 he won the Gomma Prix Award for his series Overriding Sequence. He lives and works in Bucharest.
(source: editionpatrickfrey.com)
About the Publisher
The Ilfoveanu Cultural Foundation is an offer for the Romanian space to evaluate and transform its representative art, in dependence on European art. Fundamentally linked to the history and evolution of Romanian society, despite the gaps in valorization, original Romanian art brings vibration and resonates with the public, reason enough to try to raise the quota of the national art school.
(source: fundatiailfoveanu.ro)
