IIOSIF KIRALY (b. 1957- Romania) works in photography, installation and performance. He exhibits both single and under the name of "subREAL*" (together with Calin Dan).Lecturer of photography at University of Arts Bucharest (since 1991).

My artistic activity at the last decade developed on two levels: the first one involved the work of the group subREAL, a collaboration based on a socio-political-historical-artistic discourse using photography (and photo installation) as its primary media. The second one has a more personal character and is also based on photography; a mediun that both records as well as creating re-enectments of certain moments from my personal life. This project, entitled Indirect, is ongoing and began with my distrust of my own ability to perceive, understand, and enjoy moments as they are occurring.
Many times in my life, certain events, words, or meaningful glances had completely different meanings than I believed (or wanted to belive) at the time they occurred. Indirect uses a proustian approach and developed as a result of a personal shyness. This shyness always stopped me from reacting spontaneusly to the appeals that emerged from real life. Photography helps me to overcome this handicap. While processing the film and making the prints, I experience an expansion of the time contained in each frame. In this sense, photography is the medium which allows me to re-enact (mentally) fragments of my own life. Photography is for me is an artform wich enables me, like Faust, to tell time: "Stop" !

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