Promised Land

Bar in Sf Gheorghe
ultrachrome print, 100x80cm

Livingroom in Drumul Taberei, Bucharest
ultrachrome print, 100x80cm

Livingroom in Florilor, Brașov
ultrachrome print, 100x80cm

Livingroom in Tineretului, Bucharest
ultrachrome print, 100x80cm

Restaurant in Brașov
ultrachrome print, 100x80cm

Lobby in 13 Septembrie, Bucharest
ultrachrome print, 100x80cm

Livingroom in Astra, Brașov
ultrachrome print, 100x80cm

Lobby in Republicii, Ploiești
ultrachrome print, 100x80cm

Livingroom in Pantelimon, Bucharest
ultrachrome print, 100x80cm

Baptism sanctuary in Adventist Church, Brașov
ultrachrome print, 100x80cm

These photos bring to your attention a series of mural wallpapers from Romanian living-rooms, representing waterfalls, mountain views, lakes, forests. The nature landscape wallpaper used to be a very popular interior design piece in 80`s Romania.

It intrigued me because in my artistic practice I often investigate the border between reality and fiction, between essence and appearance. The grandiose imagery would enable the inhabitants of the house to escape into a fantasy world. I like to think of it as a sort of paradise “at hand”. This kitsch and yet monumental interior design became the object of reverie and contemplative optimism. The photos are constructed in such a way as to surprise the frame within a frame and the contrast between them.