The current exhibition provides a panoramic overview of a series of themes, techniques, and representative subjects-due to their recurrence and the depth of exploration-for Răzvan Neagoe's artistic journey over the past 20 years. Portraiture, still life, landscape, and urban space form the basis of this narrative self-scripting, considering that, in most cases, representation is confronted and nullified by the technical issues of the darkroom and camera.
The image is reclaimed as a witness that records photographic errors and alterations. Consequently, it is removed from the realm of the recognizable, and the image is brought into a meditative and experimental territory of analytical and self-reflective origin. In his approach, the rudiments of analog photography, augmented with various experimental curiosities, are the primary creative tools through which the image undergoes psychological, existential, and phenomenological questioning. In this sense, Răzvan Neagoe's artistic endeavor can also be understood as a form of researching the problems of the "meta-image," a term borrowed from W.J.T. Mitchell, meaning an "image of the image," leading a self-aware inquiry into the existence of images, a specific condition of the "iconic turn."
