Beyond Fears, Adrian Oncu

Often, behavioral patterns are generated by hidden traumas and repressed memories. Fears can condition our existence more than any obstacle that comes from the outside of our being. Self-sabotage is a mechanism for gaining safety and control. Totally embracing of one's own consciousness, with its shades that can ruin social coexistence translates into a major risk.

Aware of the relationship with his own anxiety Adrian Oncu uses art as a mean of confronting the mutilated and forced to silence ego. His project within DRAFT Curatorial Program proposes a path of self-knowledge and self-acceptance, where fundamental questions have a determining role. Responses can be formulated only in the conditions of total isolation from the outside world.

*Adrian Oncu (b. 1993) is a Serbian artist of Romanian nationality. During 2014 and 2019, he studied photography at the Faculty of Arts and Design from Timișoara. He is a member of the LGBT community and an activist for the rights of sexual minorities.

Solo Shows:

2018: Digital Roots?, Galeria Digital Canvas, Timișoara, România

2017: Achromatopsia, Casa Românească, Uzdin, Serbia

Group exhibitions:

2019: Perspective Personale, Atelierul de Urbanism, Timișoara, România

2018: Tradiții și Experiment în Fotografia Academică, Ediția II, Centrul Multifuncțional Bastion, Timișoara România

2018: Vizualia, Ediția III, Cluj - Napoca, România

2018: #Offline, Galeria Mansarda, Facultatea de Arte și Design, Timișoara, România

2017: Tradiții și Experiment în Fotografia Academică, Ediția I, Muzeul de Artă, Timișoara, România

2017: Gala Absolvenților, Halele TIMCO, Timișoara, România

2016: Imaginea experimentală între culoare și nonculoare, Centrul Cultural, Vârșeț, Serbia

2016: Vizualia, Ediția II, Cluj - Napoca, România

2015: Vizualia, Ediția I, Cluj - Napoca, România

Curator: Maria Orosan-Telea 

Photo credits: Adrian Oncu