BUCURESTI

“Based on readings of Lacan and Kierkegaard, Jason R. D’aoust thinks of seduction as an answer to anxiety. First, he frames anxiety within the theory of the subject of the unconscious as the impossible experience of the Other’s desire. He then reads excerpts from the Seducer’s Diary where the aesthetic jouissance of writing serves the purpose of mastering the anxiety caused by a surplus of jouissance. #TheEstheticOfSeduction it is a seducer’s diary. Where the seducer is the image and word, but the jouissance belongs to the Other.” (Răzvan Ion) The aesthetic found in the photographs of Răzvan Ion is one of absence, of denied memories, of stylized human pathologies. Of seduction. The seduction of image and text. To gain acces into the realm of imagination, we make use of the ordinary flow of things, when we find ourselves in it everything refers to transcendence, and for whomsoever makes use of imagination, it becomes mirage. One visual mirage. The exhibition title is based on the artist hashtag on Instagram @razvan_ion

An informal discussion about the determinative mechanisms of capturing the images. Four photographers and a curator will try to show what lies behind the technique and how creative minds work. The debate will be followed by a summer cocktail and a visit of the exhibition of Răzvan Ion #TheEstheticOfSeduction - open until 03.00 AM.