Scenes From the Life of the Family Stuck has a found photography archive as a starting point: family photos, taken over the years. Going past the avalanche of conflicting feelings that surface when coming across such an object – a constant battle between curiosity and ethical distance – the dozens of images leave room for endless personal projections related to the concept of family. I gave imaginary names and identities to the people in the pictures and invented a possible life for them. It is a game of subjectivities, a kaleidoscope of memory. And who can tell how close this imagined reality is to the real one? Can they coexist without canceling each other out? Scenes From the Life of the Family Stuck also speaks about random encounters that take on meaning and mundane anonymous scenes that come to light.

Part of the ongoing project The Stucks that is based on a found photography archive, along with the book The Life and Death of Janus Stuck and the 2017 untitled audio-visual work.

SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF THE FAMILY STUCK
Scene din viața familiei Stuck

UNITEXT Publishing House
Bucharest, 2022