Mircea Sorin Albuțiu, Balance / Cumpănă
Mircea Sorin Albuțiu is a photographer and artist-researcher from Central and South-Eastern Europe who travels relentlessly, practicing and experimenting with the language of road photography and with the relationship between photography and lived space — space that is shaped, produced, and inhabited by people: space as history. Places and their people, the people of places — or how space transforms into place and path.
In his projects, the camera does more than “catch” or capture images: it enters into a relationship, inserts itself, becomes a device that engages vitally and existentially with places and roads — with the people who humanize the space which, left untouched, would remain a desert, a non-place (cf. Marc Augé). Photography here is no longer separate from the place: it becomes the place itself.
About the artist
In this project, the photographer-traveler pauses on a peak or more precisely on an ideal and imaginary, intellectual and experimental crest, a topos atopos of his career, which we must already speak of in terms of work, and a supreme place of vision, that is, a point of visualization for an idea and a spirit of the place: at the crossroads of waters, of the great and small waters of that hyper-place which is Europe. Defining Europe as a crossroads of waters, as a crossroads from where the falsely divergent destinies of this ideal, synthetic place spring, flowing and flowing. Albuțiu proceeds through montages practiced as super-images of “synthesis”, the resulting hyper-image becoming a symesthesia-synthesis of careful and inspired, extremely precise joinings and pairings. Symbolic maps with faces and landscapes, in which the countries are in fact (through a vertical “montage” between stairs, this time, completing the first in a cross shape) the faces of people and the faces of places. Photography as a meeting place.