Dani Ghercă Romania, b. 1988

Dani Ghercã  (b. 1988) is a Romanian artist who lives and works in Bucharest, Romania. He uses photography to examine the notion of urbanity, scale, and disconnection. In his photographic quest, he aims to transmit a feeling of confusion, awe, and claustrophobia onto the viewer. His large-scale photographs reflect on the current transition to a new phase of human consciousness that we don’t yet fully understand. In Gherca's cityscapes, in a time when life is changing faster than we can comprehend due to technological disruptions, the city is no longer represented by architecture or people but is reduced to an endless flow of data. By underexposing his pictures and twisting the image’s perspective, his work explores the relationship between technology, urbanization, and the human experience. Gherca’s aerial photographic cityscapes of different metropolises around the world, bathing in darkness with the occasional spots of light and colour, capture the sense of social alienation and loneliness that often results from our increasing dependence on technology.