Writing

Notes, commentary,
critical texts.

Self-published writing at the intersection of post-photographic art, philosophy of the image and digital culture — essays, public interventions, commentary on exhibitions and openings. Functions as exercise in research and invitation to dialogue, before or alongside essays published in journals.

All texts in this section are in Romanian. For essays published in cultural journals (Cultura, Echinox, Helion), see Research →

22 May 2026 Intervention

Public intervention — the Feminine Contrasts exhibition

Commentary at the vernissage of E.V.'s exhibition · Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca · 6 May 2026 · in Romanian

A critical-curatorial intervention on a second solo exhibition, recognising the visual strength of certain frames — the relationship between body, space and architectural grid — while articulating the conceptual question the title opens without resolving. The text proposes the distinction between visual diversity and conceptual unity, and suggests that editorial rigour can sustain a stronger discourse than the accumulation of images individually successful but insufficiently articulated together.

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3 April 2026 Intervention

Public intervention — the Simulacru – Generative Thoughts exhibition

Commentary on Ovidiu Belceanu's exhibition · Generative Thoughts · in Romanian

Starting from Simulacru, the article analyses the shift from the created image to the generated image, the redefinition of the artist's role and the cultural implications of algorithms. In dialogue with Joanna Zylinska: AI systems are not neutral — they reproduce and amplify existing cultural structures, raising the question of artistic responsibility.

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20 February 2026 Essay

The image in the AI age: document or construction?

Self-published essay · introductory text to the directions of the monograph From Real to Augmented · in Romanian

Photography functioned for a long time as a visual oath — the guarantee that something had existed. In the age of generated images, this certainty has fractured irreparably. The text proposes a new question: not „is this image real?", but „what position does it sustain, and who claims it?"

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20 January 2026 Essay

The danger of decorative photography and ornamental generative

Self-published essay · Greenberg, Flusser, Grba in dialogue · in Romanian

It has never been easier to produce spectacular images — and that is precisely the problem. Generative art risks becoming an engine of digital decoration: beautiful, hypnotic, but conceptually empty. The essay argues that the role of the artist in the AI age is to resist the program, not to execute it.

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18 December 2025 Essay · Public intervention

Modern and contemporary painting: artistic expression versus photographic documentarism

Intervention at the vernissage of the exhibition The White That Speaks · Banatul Montan Photo Club, Reșița · in Romanian

Photography has a stronger documentary character than painting — not to devalue painting, but to clarify the distinct functions of the two media. The essay articulates the distinction between pictorial interpretation and photographic recording in modern and contemporary art.

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The texts gathered here are closer to the studio than to the journal. For complete theoretical articulations, see the monograph From Real to Augmented at Research →