“Backseat Taxi Napping”
Artist: Toma Hurduc
Curator: Sorin Florea
October - November 2023
About the exhibition:
Backseat Taxi Napping, Toma Hurduc's first exhibition, features photographs curated from an impressive body of work that spans over several years of documenting Bucharest's nightlife. This is a deeply personal exhibition, as Toma presents himself through images of others – friends, taxi drivers, random people who happen to be in the same situation as him. It candidly shows glimpses of a Bucharest unknown for the majority of its inhabitants, of the late nights and early mornings of music-loving, party-going adolescents. The exposition is like a poem that might have been written by Iggy Pop in the 70s, and it reminds us of ubiquitous adolescence, of the vulnerability of freedom, of experimentation and of the highs and lows of togetherness.
About the artist:
Toma Hurduc (b. 2001, Romania) is a documentary photographer, currently working in Bucharest. His attention is focused on representing local underground communities and movements, which he strongly feels related to. Nowadays, his narratives are often built on top of the personal experience and relationship with the subject matter; therefore, the factual truth is often mixed with the meta, imaginative truth, aiming to question the human perception of reality, dread, anxiety, ephemerality and the construction of memory. Having an academic background in cinematography, Toma is highly interested in the way light forms images, choosing to work regularly on 35mm black and white film using a flash, as a way to render the surreal he sees in ordinary life.
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