Artist Blog

Every week an artist whose single image was published by Der Greif is given a platform in which to blog about contemporary photography.

mg src="http://dergreif-online.de/www/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/05-peopledowater-600x360.jpg" alt="untitled" width="600" height="360" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-45005" /> First of all thanks to Der Greif Team. I'm really happy to be part of this platform. I would like to introduce to you a couple of new cycle of works based on photography and the sexuality of the sea: »People do water« and »The Excess Island«, both started around 2012 and still in progress. About 4 years ago I decided to begin to work on my personal film photography archive, that I started to shoot when I was around 6 years old. The desire was to try to use my reaserch on sexuality as filter to filter all that could come out from this archive. I noticed that I had hundreds of pictures about islands, oceans, seas, beaches, fishes, horizons, waves, people in the water, people swimming, seagulls; there was a world and this world was about the sexuality of the sea. I'm trying to think about the sea as a sexual metaphor. It's an in progress method, still uncertain, to superimpose an unconventional sexual manifestation on natural elements and natural scenery, trying to displace the dialectic edges between normality and perversion. Both of these projects are part of the platform Art:I:curate, founded by Nur Elektra El Shami and Irina Turcan. I strongly suggest to visit this art platform that supports emerging artists and curators, working both on on-line processes and off line exhibitions. Everytime it's a pleasure to work with such a professional and elegant team.