A collection of video artists from the perm

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Larisa David Born in 1988, in Targu-Mures, Romania. I live and work in Bucharest, Romania.

I work with video, installation, photo-collages and photography.

My work is focused on identity behavior, and how synthetic constructed conducts take form and are influencing us in daily practices.

I am interested in the line between fiction and lived life, between nonsense and sense; the way life is portrayed in narratives and plots of mainstream forms, interrogating the behaviors and values that are absorbed and used in local contexts.

Because many behaviors are normalized by media and arguably we are raised by entertainment industry, I take a look at, and confront popular visual culture: films, commercials and music videos, in search for the hidden meaning in the media’s official discourse. My position is that we all need to be habitants of global culture, to understand constructions artificially made that are invading our lives and influencing our perception.

I appropriate, interpret and recycle existing material, remove elements to disrupt their form and reconfigure them with a new grammar that allows me to dig deeper to their core and highlight their hidden content. This process allows me to make strange and unnatural images, revealing a new visual grammar.

Eliminating certain elements, like brands, products or narrative, allows understanding of the fetishistic nature of gestuality and absurd choreographies that are employed in creating images.

I explore in my video work, time, performativity and repetition, reminding viewers of the mechanical aspect of video, but also to trivialize actions, to center on the sisyphean aspect of life. I tend to use repetition and loops because I find them powerful and obsessive, relating to specific psychological impulses and at another l evel, mimicking the continuous loop of images and gestures in our culture.

I am looking for ways to insert in my work juxtaposing elements to explore banality, creating images that are built on tension and confusion.

I insert new possibilities, détourned domestic objects and actions, to form an altered reality gravitating around chaos and order. The piece, I received a Bachelor Degree in 2010, in Fine Arts, Photography, Video and Digital Image Processing at the University of Art, Bucharest. In 2009, I received an Erasmus scholarship to study for one semester at Brera University in Milan. In 2012, I received my Master Degree in Video Art, at the University of Art, Bucharest.

Selected Exhibitions/Group Exhibitions/Festivals 2012 Bear with Me/Aud Bucuresti , Galeria Posibila, Bucharest, Romania.

2012 (Prima si ultima) bienala de rezultate. Despre ursi, domnitori, chipuri, sentimente, lumina, sunet, haine, cuptoare si hipermarketuri", Platforma, Anexa MNAC, Bucharest.

2011 Celalart Corp/The Other Body, Victoria Art Center for Contemporary Cultural Production, Bucharest, Romania 2011 Corpul supravegheat/Body under Surveillance, Victoria Art Center for Contemporary Cultural Production, Bucharest, Romania 2010| 6X6, Athens, Georgia, U.S.A 2010| Temp D’Images, Section: Temp D’Ecoles D’Images, ClujNapoca, Romania