“Király draws from recent, everyday photographic “notes”, as well as intimate self-portraits from the 1990s, which she reframes and recontextualizes with scraps of cardboard and hand-made drawings, transforming the original images into artefacts that unfold in space.
Artist: Aurora Király
Curator: Sonia Voss
12 September 2025 – 25 October 2025
26 Popa Soare Street, Bucharest
Titled “Beyond the Photographic Frame” and curated by Sonia Voss, the exhibition presents several recent bodies of works by Aurora Király, inspired by photographic material from her own artistic archive.
These three-dimensional objects also contain a reflection on the photographic medium itself: They evoke the apparatus (the camera body) and its capacity of taking us through layers of time, into the meanders of our memory.
The exhibition will also display a human-scale Viewfinder: a translucent sculpture that allows the interplay of the image and the surrounding light, while reminiscent of the large-format cameras of the photographic pioneers. A series of photograms inspired from the same stock of images and acrylic material will complete this cohesive cycle of works. With those photograms, Király goes back to the two-dimensional paper and to the fragility of the seminal technique of “drawing with light” – while also exploring the full potential of her images, up to the limits of abstraction, and opening new spaces for thought.
