The Romanian Cultural Institute (RCI) in Tel Aviv will host, between June 24th – July 30th, 2019, the photography exhibition called ”A traveler’s impressions. Bucharest 2009-2019” by associate professor and PhD Ruth Oren. The project consists of a series of images of Bucharest, taken between 2009 and 2019, during all 4 seasons.
The official opening will be on June 27 th, starting with 17 hs., at the RCI headquarter, located on 8 Shaul Hamelech boulevard, Beit Amot Mishpat, 6 th floor. Cleopatra Lorințiu, RCI deputy director, will discuss about the intersection between arts and the relationship between reality - imagination – imaginary. Furthermore, Phd. Edna Barromi-Perlman, associate professor at Kibbutzim College and visual culture researcher, will present, in Hebrew, an analysis of the images and photography techniques used by Ruth Oren.
The project includes 28 photographs, presented in a visual narrative, meant to document the urban details (architecture, street art and graffiti, instant shots of everyday life) specific to Bucharest. ”The urban landscape has a special attraction for me. The vitality of the city gives me the chance to use visual language accurately - observation points, movement, composition, play of lights and shadows, color effects - to capture details from everyday life. Working under this category of street photography, I use elements specific to the international photographic syntax of this type. For me, photography is one of the forms of exploration of a city” confesses the artist.
Some of the photos in the exhibition were at the basis of a project called ”Meetings: Bucharest-Yafo / Bucharest-Haifa”, which was also presented at the RCI Tel Aviv in 2012, and at "Gallery 15 Design” in Bucharest, in 2014. Renamed "My Space - My Place", the project was exhibited in May 2018, at the Cluj-Napoca Art Museum (MACN) during the "Media Culture Days" Conference, organized by the Babeş-Bolyai University in Cluj Napoca.
Currently an associate professor at the University of Haifa, Dr. Ruth Oren combines artistic and academic work in the field of photography and visual communication. Born in Romania in 1949, she emigrated to Israel in 1961. She holds a BA in Theater History and the Hebrew Language and Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has an MA in Media and Journalism from the same university and received her PhD. at the University of Haifa, with a paper about the themes and aspects of the Israeli landscape in the 1945-1963 photography. Besides her artistic and academic activity, Dr. Ruth Oren collaborates as a journalist with various publications in Israel.
