A few days ago, a dream came true for me: to have an exhibition in the heart of Chelsea’s art galleries, in New York City. Everything happened as part of the Marked For More project, initiated by The Social Incubator Association, which marked its presence in the USA.
The project is not just an exhibition, but a story about young adults raised inside the Romanian child protection system. The red thread connecting the portraits of these young adults is their tattoos. These are young people entering adult life without family albums, but carrying their tattoos instead, as a form of memory and identity, or as a mark of survival. Their tattoos represent names or things they do not want to forget, losses, fears, new beginnings, or promises made to themselves.
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