First Name:Violeta Last Name: Ioniţă Date of Birth: 03. 01. 1984 Place of Birth: Focsani, Vrancea, Romania Nationality: Romanian Address : Str. P-ta Independentei, Nr. 1, Bloc 1, Ap. 51, Focsani, Vrancea, Romania Phone : Mobile: 0040/ 744 .975. 670 E-mail: ionitavioleta@ymail.com Education: 2004-2008 G. Enescu University, Fine Arts Faculty, Graphics section,

Photography and Video Specialisation, Iasi, Romania 1998-2003 ‘’Gheorghe Tattarescu’’ Fine Arts High School, Focsani, Romania

Awards:

2008 my short films MESSAGE, 15 minutes of confusions and

TERMINUS are nominated for ESSL AWARD CEE 2009; www.essl.museum

2007 my film Message is selected for opening day screening at FILOFEST FILM FESTIVAL, Ljubljana, SLOVENIA.; http://www.filofest.com/filmi07/TEKMOVALNI/2007-132-E%20(Message)/2007-132-

2007 selected for scholarship for excellency by G Enescu University 2007 excellence in performance by G Enescu University

2007 selected for Erasmus scholarship, Belgium, Hasselt, PHL (15 jan -15 may 2007)

2005 ‘’Excellency Diploma‘’ for artistic and literature activity, by Vrancea Letters National Camera-Marasesti, Romania

2002 ‘’Excellency Diploma’’, for the High School artistic activity by Focsani City Town Hall

2001 ‘’Special Diploma for Monumental Painting’’, ‘’G. Apostu’’National Painting Camp, The Uz Valley

1998 Second Prize,’’Alex.Ciucurencu’’ National Painting Competition, Tulcea 1997 Second Prize, ’’Alexandru Ciucurencu’’ National Painting Competition,

Tulcea City

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Work 1: Terminus Year: 2008 Technique: Video Size: 5’ 06” This short film was made for graduation exam. Now it is nominated for ESSEL AWARD 2009 and it’ll be exhibited in May, 29 at National Theatre in Bucharest. This film is about alienation and individualism. In the film I present a symbolic run of industrialization, mechanization and superficiality to avoid a life as a print. I try to show two possibilities: accepting to be a “canned food human” or running for a better life for keeping the spirituality and essence alive

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Work 2: 15 minutes of confusion Year: 2008 Technique: Video Size: 15’ This short film is also nominated for ESSEL AWARD 2009 and it’ll be exhibited in May, 29 at National Theatre in Bucharest. It’s about the deterioration of the educational system in Romania and politics that encourages this phenomenon. The youth has two options: the easy way, that is corrupted and superficial, or the hard way that makes the youth to reach the professionalism and the essence of the life. The film emphasizes in a cynical mood the confusion in youth nowadays. I believe criticism helps improvement.

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Work 3: “Canned food humans” Year: 2008 Technique: installation Size: 30 pineapple canned food boxes This is my photographic project for graduation exam. This is the story of the human being that was transformed into canned food by the System. The project also talks about human’s alienation. I took pictures of some people while they were

holding in their hands placards with true jail numbers, with the written words “alienated” and “individualist” and instead of American states I wrote my country initials, RO. I stuck these photographs on real empty canned food boxes to show, in a metaphorical way, what people reached to be thanks to a wrong and cold system.

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“Canned food humans” Installation

Work 4: I and Thou Year: 2008 Technique: Installation and Video Size: 6’ 44” Short-film “I and Thou” This is a faculty project that I exhibited in the faculty photography studio. I did a remake of the project “Relation in space” signed by Marina Abramovic and Ulay. I used some text from Martin Buber’s book, “I and Thou”, and I also interpreted it There is about two screens that are talking to each other. They symbolize the woman and the man: the blue lips represent the man and the red lips represent the woman. They have a philosophical conversation about their relation. Here both characters have my voice to emphasize that I feel alone in my love relation and also that women, in general express their feelings much more then men. The story starts from Marina and Ulay's relation and reaches to my own relation. With the installation material I also made a short-film having the length of 6 minutes and 44 seconds.

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Installation “I and Thou” Short-film “I and Thou”

Short-film “I and Thou”

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Work 5: Traveller Year: 2008 Technique: video Size: 3’ 32’’ This short film was ehxibited at Chisinau as a result of the workshop RO-MD/Moldova in two scenarios in Republic of Moldavia, http://www.art.md/2008/ro_md_expo.html

In my project I chose to talk about the similarities between Romania and Republic of Moldavia. Both countries have lot of people working abroad and helping the national economies to function, both countries have youth that bit by bit borrowed the “deleted memory” life using the computer as brain, like this deleting their own national history, past and culture. Here it’s about the huge desire to travel and discover new cultures. The question is: are these men wise enough to control their life journey? Will they remember their origin, their past? The answer seems to be a negative one taking into consideration the Romanian and Moldavian history- they ended separated.

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Work 6: Message Year: 2007 Technique: Video Size: 11’ 51” In 2007 this short film is selected for opening day screening at FILOFEST FILM FESTIVAL, SLOVENIA.; http://www.filofest.com/filmi07/TEKMOVALNI/2007-132-E%20(Message)/2007-132- In March, the second, 2008, this film was displayed in the exhibition “Hate&Love”, that took place in gallery L5, P.Cuypersstraat 1,Hoek Stedelijk Museum, 6041 Roermond ( the Netherlands); http://www.slib-art.be/hateandlove/index.htm Now is also nominated for ESSEL AWARD 2009 and it’ll be exhibited in May, 29 at National Theatre in Bucharest. Message is a film that criticizes the loss of hope of real love and its purity. In this film I share my own experience in love. I try to convince the audience about the importance of the deepness of the feelings that we share with other people especially, those between a man and a woman. The main role of any society is to lead humanity to the real values and feelings.

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Work 7: Unpack your package and see who you are! Year: 2007 Technique: Video Size: 6’ 13”

This is a short film that I did while I had my scholarship in Belgium. In this project I used my own body expressiveness to transmit the pleasure of feeling good in my own skin. Enjoying so much, the work on this film and feeling so good moving like a ballet dancer, made me discover my true passion: doing artistic short-films. I wanted to convince the people how great it feels to be you! At that time I also was seriously thinking of the power that is given by an open and free mind. The title, “Unpack your package and see who you are”, refers to open the soul to have a look inside and discover what a person really is, his true nature, talents, needs and dreams. It’s also about playing and childhood. The film was displayed at “Be Abroad” exhibition in Belgium.

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Work 8: Unpack your package and see who you are! Year: 2007 Technique: silkscreen prints Size: A2, A1, A2 I displayed these silkscreen prints at the final foreign student’s exhibition, “Be Abroad”, in Belgium. These works completed my principal project named, Diary. It was the first time when I tried this print technique and it was a special experience.

Silkscreen prints

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Silkscreen prints

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Silkscreen prints

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Work 9: Dare to be alive! Year: 2007 Technique: video Size: 11’ 16’’

This project talks about my own revelation of realizing what a great robot I am for any human society! It’s not about complaining or asking for mercy, it’s about the shock that any dreamer has once he exits his sensible world to confront reality. There is a good sense question to be put in this case: Who built this present day world, the aliens?

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Work 10: Diary Year: 2007 Technique: collage on newspapers Size: 70m

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I used newspapers that I colored in black to transform them into package paper. I also used the special sticking paper as drawing line that helped me to create forms like any other pencil. I drew 70 meters of newspapers, enough to wrap a whole room that supposed to be my diary. A diary is a private space so, mine contains some of my deepest thoughts, life conclusions and also many pictures that I took with me. I drew on photos and newspapers. In my “diary” I wrote in a direct and cynical way, expressing my emotions that I felt at that moment of my life. That was the point: to take a snap of my mentality at that stage. It was like an explosion of so many feelings! I just felt to break all the silence I respected by then because I was feeling that my glass was full so, I just spilt it! That diary grew up with me because it recorded my every day experiences in Belgium: some of them good, others bad.

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Work 11: Diary Year: 2007 Technique: photography Size: A4 These photographs are part of Diary project and came stuck on the newspapers. I printed them on normal paper to be a good support for the pastels. I took a series of pictures with me to express my different moods because it was about writing my personal diary. It has to be me!

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Work 12: Alienation Year: 2007 Technique: video Size: 1’ 43’’ This film is the result of my participation at the workshop coordinated by the German artist Delia Keller in Romania. The film was dispalyed in the faculty gallery. Here it's about the people that don't identify with the society they come from, people who don't feel good inside their society because they don't feel protected and the abundance of so many wrong rules sufocate them. Most of these people decide to abandon reality to live completely in their own world. These people are called antisocials and they isolate themselves soemtimes with the price of losing their minds.

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