Featured in Revista ARTA – Venice Biennale 2022 Dossier
resonance to the 59th Venice Biennale…
Institutional Context: In 2022, works from this series were selected for an artistic intervention in Revista ARTA (Issue #56-57), as a Romanian resonance to the 59th Venice Biennale theme, “The Milk of Dreams”. The dossier, curated by Daria Ghiu, positioned the series within the international dialogue on metamorphosis and the feminine gaze.
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- Developed during the 2020 period of rhythmic confinement, Fairy Tales is a series of visual logs exploring the tension between personal mythology and archival reality. As a Memory Analyst, I approach the canvas not to illustrate, but to salvage emotional fragments— incomplete, distorted, and fragile.
- The series functions as a conceptual inquiry into the “subjectivity of looking,” where the traditional “happy ending” of fairy tales is replaced by the raw, anatomical truth of memory. These works on paper are tactile records of a psychological archaeology, bridging the gap between internal landscapes and universal archetypes.
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