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Laura Horelli,
documentary photo, Iaşi, 2006
Vector member Cristian Nae, who comes from Craiova, the hometown of
Sorescu, helped me to contact the literary critic Sorina Sorescu, Marin Sorescu's
niece. Many details about Sorescu I received from the Internet or Literature House
Pogor were in conflict with what Sorina Sorescu told me. This made me think a lot
about the reliability of information and how different interests shape it. Obviously
my relation to Sorescu, whom I had just recently “discovered” was quite different to
his family or Romanians who have known his writing for the last forty or so years.
This is why it became important to quote people in the video, first of all to make
transparent how I received information in this context, but also to allow conflicting
information to exist side by side.
Of what relevance is it to give information about a place in the context it was
derived from? Is this just banal for local viewers? Does this quickly feed the touristic
interests of foreign Biennial visitors? Some traps of site-specific practice could
maybe not be avoided, but the video has several layers and does not only tell about
a place. I also had the feeling that there is a need to analyze this context from its
inhabitants, despite the love-hate relationship one often has to the place one
comes from.
Laura Horelli,
documentary photo, Iaşi, 2006