From the Romania-based multidisciplinary artist, Rebecca Olarescu, we present a series of photographs titled ‘Mercy.’ She turns the lens toward dance performance with a unique perspective of a ballerina.
Olarescu’s work is an abundance of beauty and an ode to the human form and body. Ballet is an art form that perfectly balances control and freedom, discipline and emotions, and schedule and spontaneity. All this is also true for her photography. She manages to infuse intimacy into a very public stage display. Similar closeness and equilibrium is present in her portraiture outside of theater.
Her portfolio features a complex and wide range of sub-topics and themes that fit under the umbrella of editorial photography. Her work delves into the unseen, backstage world of the performing arts, exploring “the good and the bad,” the heart and the practice—two energetic elements that fuel the emotionally driven engines breathing life onto the stage. “My work focuses on the raw, behind-the-scenes emotions of people, performance, and life,” the artist mentions.
Referring to herself as a “visual storyteller,” the photographer brings this same approach to the featured series. A production of the Cinderella story, the series utilizes motion and dynamism as a monochrome ‘bone marrow,’ reinterpreting the classic tale through a lens of realism and rawness that captures the viewer and provides layers of sub-meaning. Olarescu explains that “[this series] is an exploration of our bodies as they stop fighting, start listening to themselves, and become free.”
Overall, the artist states that her photography “lets the theme emerge organically by showcasing the intersection of human vulnerability with artistic strength.”
Read our “Aberration” issue in full
The 31 artists featured in RAWGUE. Magazine’s 5th issue stray from the expected, taking untrodden paths, contemplating imperfection, solitude in its many forms, and the ongoing process of self-acceptance. Through shifting perspectives, their works explore what it means to look at oneself from the outside, as if through broken glass.
We’re a team of writers using our craft to spotlight art in its most honest form. RAWGUE. started as a bi-monthly editorial experiment where each issue’s theme is dictated by the submitted work, thus removing editorial bias from the equation and preserving a more raw approach. We focus on all forms of poetry: written, photographed, painted, drawn, and filmed.
