Ștefan Sava (b. 1982) lives and works in Bucharest, Romania.
He earned a Master's Degree from the Photo-Video Department of The National University of Arts, Bucharest (2010) and he is currently enrolled at the enrolled as a PHD student at the same university. His projects combine photography, video, performance and object and are based on a long process of theoretical reflection and research. He is particularly interested in the subject of recent history and in the way in which the history can be visually reactivated through an analytical approach. His works aim to intimately connect the viewer with the dialectical relationship between past and present. In 2013 he was the winner of the Henkel Art Award Romania.
www.stefansava.roSelected solo shows: Facts About Which There Can Be Questions, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest (2013), The Inside‐Out of the Wall, Ivan Gallery, Bucharest (2012), Atoms and Void, Galeria Posibilă, Bucharest (2010).
Selected group shows: Few Were Happy with their Condition, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur (2015), Europe/South-East. Recorded Memories, Museum für Photographie Braunschweig (2013), From the Backstage, Salonul de proiecte, The National Museum of Contemporary Art – Anexa, Bucharest (2012).
All images: ©Ștefan Sava, courtesy of the artist and Ivan Gallery
All images: ©Ștefan Sava, courtesy of the artist and Ivan Gallery
Ștefan Sava , The Falling of the Arches, 2015, video HDV, 30 min
Ștefan Sava , The Falling of the Arches, 2015, video HDV, 30 min
Ștefan Sava , The Falling of the Arches, 2015, video HDV, 30 min
Ștefan Sava , The Falling of the Arches, 2015, video HDV, 30 min
Ștefan Sava , The Falling of the Arches, 2015, video HDV, 30 min
Changing Horizons, 2013, photographic montage, 102.5 x 148 cm
Horizons, 2013, backdrop made of nine old sacks cut and re-sewn, 300 x 230 cm
Untitled, 2013, boomerang, marble, 20 x 50 cm
55 Artist Breaths, 2013, wax tablets (wood, bee wax), 15 x 21 cm each
He told himself that..., 2012, photo installation, Alphabet – artist book, vitrine with documentation
He told himself that..., 2012, photo installation, Alphabet – artist book, vitrine with documentation (detail letter E)
8 Variations in a Circle, 2011, photographs, 30 x 36 cm each (detail)
The Gate, 2011, object made of remodelled 1950s adobe bricks
The Wooden Box, found object 2010, large wooden box containing Jewish religious books out of use, approx. 70 x 100 x 300 cm
The Falling of the Arches, 2015, video HDV, 15 min., scanned anonymous film slide