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Studio 19 Gallery
strada Albac nr. 19

The Cluj-Napoca Branch of the Union of Visual Artists of Romania is a professional organization of visual artists, with over 450 members. The branch provides its member artists with 49 creative studios and a gallery in the Albac 19 building. The gallery hosts solo and small group exhibitions by branch members as well as invited artists.

Blank portraits – contemporary self as an intimate record

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Tip eveniment
VERNISAJ la NAG
Perioada Expozitie
03.10.2025 - 18.10.2025
Blank portraits are the body itself transformed into a persona that the world can crave for, admire, gossip, the story of love and hate, just the intimate relation a creator has with its creation. Do we blot out the traces of the personality or do we exaggerate on those peculiarities? Are the relationships with ourselves and others incidental, or are we complicating the artificial lighting that we are living in, over-industrialized, over-exposed, overwhelmed with options and configurations. Photography and subjectivity are interconnected, intertwined and overlapping in the folds of layered light and self. We talk about a net of self-consciousness, ambiguity and fluidity of self, just as a surface to make ephemeral emotions come forth. Blank portraits are a land of all posibilities, a new experience of the portrait that encapsulates the selected artists' approaches to contemporary portraiture until the self-portraits as a fictive identity. The selected artists work with the notion of self-mapping, identity that are wraped around the limits personal and of intimacy. Some work with their own body, others are an admirer of the gaze of hidden truths. Portraiture is one of the genres of photography, dominant, classical, omnipresent in a portfolio of artistic approach, as a grain of salt and the white noise sound of contemporary gender role redefinition.