The exhibition Foto>Grafisme proposes a dialog between two meanings of the visual sign. Mihaela Moțăianu (PhD Candidate) discovers through photography the signs of the action of time on matter and the signs of human action in urban space. For Constantin Rusu (PhD Candidate) the sign means his own intervention in the space of the working surface. The exhibition was open at the Gallery 15 Design – The Tea Tree Inn, from June 23 to July 14, 2023. Curator Prof. Dr. Marina Theodorescu.

As a result of artistic research, Mihaela’s conclusions originate from her interest in studying the effects of the geographical environment on her own perceptions and emotions while walking. Her experiments are carried out in the urban environment, collecting photographic images with details subject to degradation or transformation over time. The set of photographs presents a suite of images with signs of the past, where human action is present by preserving them in the built environment, up to signs of the degradation of matter that the artist presents as visual narratives giving them new interpretations. Thus, the “signs of the times” are “adopted” by Mihaela, becoming forms of graphism in her photographs.

For Constantin, creation is intertwined with research and discovery of the expression and meaning of his own signs. An important place is the graphisms generated by the music they listen to, which “dictate” their shapes, routes, and intensities. Whether it is a piece of music performed by an instrumentalist partner, generated as an experiment by a composer partner, or listened to at a concert, there is a connection between the musical sign and the visual sign, which Constantin presents both as a result – ink drawing or painted canvas, as well as performance, the process of generating signs and thus, his own works, always being recorded.