Born in Bucharest, Romania, 1988
Lives and works in Bucharest.
2020-2021, PostGraduate, HISK, Gent, Belgium
2013-2015, MFA, UNARTE, Bucharest, Romania (master student of Iosif Kiraly)
2010-2013, BFA, UNARTE, Bucharest, Romania
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In Dani Gherca’s recent works (2020–present), the image no longer documents reality, it questions it. The artist transforms photography into a tool for introspection on the contemporary condition, a way of exploring the slow disappearance of humanity from its own world.
His works become visual metaphors for loneliness and alienation in the post-urban era, where physical life gradually dissolves into a digitally mediated existence.
They speak of loneliness, but a new kind of loneliness, one born from excess rather than absence, and of alienation, not as a product of isolation, but of hyperconnection. In an age dominated by complex technology and the illusion of constant connectivity, Gherca observes the opposite phenomenon: disconnection. It is a world that, though digitally intertwined, seems to have lost its human coherence, orientation, and inner rhythm.
The result is an image of our era, a radiography of contemporary consciousness, revealing how, in the attempt to control reality through increasingly more complex technologies, the human being ends up losing their own presence: a slow, yet inevitable disappearance.
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Prior to his current practice (between 2010 and 2019) he worked on different projects that document the social and economic shifts that occurred as a result of the Romanian Revolution and the country's EU membership. Some of the main subjects of his earlier works include marginalized groups living in a maze of underground tunnels in Bucharest ("Tunnels and Pipes" 2011-2015) or the decay of communist working-class neighbourhoods in Romania ("A Diagram of Utopia" 2014-2017).