Patricia Moroșan (b. 1984)

Born 1984, Fagaras, Romania / Lives and works in Berlin and Athens. She studied Film and Art History in Berlin and Photography at the Ostkreuzschule Berlin. She is a member of the international photo collectiv “Temps Zero”(www.tempszero.com). Her photos have been shown at Les Rencontres de la photographie d’Arles (Voies Off) in Fotohaus Paris Berlin, at Boutographies Festival (Montpellier) at Bursa Photofestival (Turkey), Noorderlicht Festival Gröningen (Netherlands), at the Museum of Contemporary Arts Bucharest, in Berlin (AFF Gallery, Alte Feuerwache Gallery, Bildband Berlin, Haus am Kleistpark, Kommunale Galerie Berlin), Athen (TAF Metamatic Gallery, KET Television Center, Benaki Museum/ Athens Fotofestival ), Paris ( Atelier Varan), FotoWien ( 12-14 contemporary, Kunstnetzwerk, Schikaneder Kino), Bolzano (Foto Forum), Lissabon (ICR Gallery, Galeria Sa da Costa) etc. She won in 2019 the “New European Photography Award “- Prix du Jury at the Fotofestival Boutographies in Montpellier, the Courage Award 2019 in Berlin; and was nominated for the Art Prize Haus am Kleistpark (2019), for the Documentary Award Wüstenrot Foundation/ Museum Folkwang (2020), Gomma Grant (2021), BUP Award (2022). She received various grants, among which the Initial stipend of the Akademie der Künste Berlin, exchange stipend of the Berlin Senate for Culture and Europe.

(I) Remember Europe

(I)Remember Europe is a photographic journey which reveals the center as existential pursuit, as geographical destiny and as political metaphor. Various places, in seven different countries claim to be the center of the European continent – and each one of them points this out with its own monument. The geographical midpoints are located in: Germany, Lithuania, on the Saarema island is Estland, in Poland, Ukraine, Slovakia and Belarus.

For the (I) Remember Europe project I related to the geographical midpoints in terms of psychogeography. This means that I was interested in reflecting on the subject in an emotional way. My project became both a documentary and subjective investigation, based on the emotional ties between human beings and their physical environment. My travels around the geographical centers of Europe seems to be a story of the shifting construct of the concept of “Europe”, where with every modification of the frontier the center dislocates.

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