AIM PHOTO: DIORAMA

AIM PHOTO

DIORAMA

26.09 - 17.10.2025 

Dani Ghercă, Bogdan Gîrbovan, Nicu Ilfoveanu, Iosif Kiraly

Curated by Michele Bressan

Opening on Friday, 26.09.2025, starting at 18:00

13 Piața Amzei Street, Bucharest

AIM PHOTO is Mobius’  new annual capsule, created to explore the breadth of contemporary photographic practices. It provides a long-term dedicated space where photography becomes a medium for sustained reflection on image-making and its role within today’s artistic and cultural discourse.

For its inaugural edition, organized in collaboration with The Institute and Creative Quarter, AIM PHOTO transforms Amzei Square into a dynamic landscape of photography, unfolding across four key locations în Amzei.

Curated by Michele Bressan, the show brings together works by Dani Ghercă, Bogdan Gîrbovan, Nicu Ilfoveanu, and Iosif Kiraly. Under the curatorial theme Diorama, the project examines the delicate interplay of presence and absence: human figures appear only as subtle traces within expansive environments, not as protagonists, but as elements that shape perspective and scale. This first edition establishes the framework for AIM PHOTO as a program committed to rethinking how photography mediates perception and constructs meaning.

Since its inception, photography has sought to record human presence. Portraits or self-portraits are intended to confirm a subject’s presence at a specific moment, capable of affirming, “I was there, at that time.” From Hippolyte Bayard’s early self-portrait Self Portrait as Drowned Man (1840), to the studio portraits of Carol Pop de Szathmari, and August Sander’s deadpan photographs, up to recent works, there is a common trait: the recognizability of subjects. Photographs can be classified in many ways, but here we invoke only one, fundamental and relevant to the discussion that follows: photographs in which people appear, and photographs devoid of human presence. — Michele Bressan

The exhibition emphasises the interplay between human presence, environment, and perspective. Figures exist within complex landscapes or layered compositions, inviting viewers to reconsider scale, spatial relationships, and the way we perceive familiar scenes. In this way, Diorama presents a contemplative exploration of presence and absence, encouraging multiple ways of seeing and engaging with photographic images.

As part of NAG 2025, the exhibition will be open for visiting: 

October 3 and 4: 6:00 PM–10:00 PM

October 5: 4:00 PM–10:00 PM