Alina Usurelu

In the past five years I have been working with photography, video and sound tools to discover the various relationships forming between body, space, movement and image, developing frameworks for artists coming from various backgrounds (painting, choreography, architecture, psychology, etc.) to research and create new forms of expression. Being immersed in an artistic network while working at the National Dance Center in Bucharest enabled me to pay attention to the practices of different artists and integrate them in projects like Up Stairs and Exposing Movement questioning the way they react and interact with each other. Therefore, photography and video-making are the mediums which allow me to create and constructively connect to the contemporary collective, looking for ways to understand and express the mutual relationships that shape and influence interactions. The experience in the contemporary dance field shaped my artistic practice and enhanced my need to discover and explore different cultural spheres. I believe that it is necessary for an artist to develop multilaterally in order to explore the self and the connectivity characterizing our world. If one’s perception is confined to their own subjectivity, entrenched in the mundane reality of daily struggle, one cannot observe and investigate the complex realities of our interconnected, but deeply divided world.