Models
Romania
2019
The series Reacknowledged Structures: Models is based on the analysis and interpretation of education slides produced in the cinema studio Animafilm in Bucharest in the 1970s. These slides were language learning tools and used the image of “the pioneer”. The photographs used for these slides show people who are still alive, and the absence of any production archive leads us to question the very identity of these individuals. Thus, the series canonises the image of three people in these photos in today’s context.
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About the artist
Mihai Șovăială was born 1993 and is currently based in Leipzig, Germany. He studied photography at the National University of Arts of Bucharest, Romania. He is currently enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts of Leipzig.
Horatiu Șovăială was born in 1987. He graduated from the National University of Arts of Bucharest, Romania, in photography and has since produced work revolving around the relationship between image and memory and has self-published two books.