Roxana Donaldson is a Contemporary Fine Artist and Memory Analyst whose practice operates at the intersection of Conceptualism, Process Art, and Post-Minimalism. Central to her work is the use of reclaimed domestic textiles—recycled bed sheets that serve as found surfaces of intimacy. Through a rigorous process of multiple layering, erosion, and anthropological inscriptions, she treats these textiles not merely as supports, but as archival vessels for fragile and chaotic emotional content, in a process she defines as “archaeologies of memory”.
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While her core activity is centered on painting (The Lab), her work frequently expands into modular installations and assemblage art (Archives). As an image researcher, she documents her findings through theoretical texts and meditative logs (Logs), bridging the gap between visual creation and conceptual analysis. Donaldson’s work seeks to save and reconfigure temporal frameworks, offering a physical anchor for resilience and memory in a contemporary context.
ARTISTIC STATEMENT
Memory is a chaotic beast.
Without a cage, it either flees or devours.
I paint on reclaimed domestic textiles as primary canvases, layering pigments and inscriptions to archive time. I do not describe, I do not tell stories, I do not illustrate: this is Process Art where the material possesses agency. Beyond the canvas, my practice involves a systematic analysis of the image, while as a researcher, I document memory and human affective experience.
My laboratory is the studio, and the case study, the gaze.
Aesthetic: Mental burn | Directed inward | Research-based
Composition: Recycled linen | Organic matter | Multiple layers of erosion
Qualities: Tactile | Analytical | Durable
ART GEOLOCALIZATION: private collections RO | FR | CH | DE | NL
SELECTED TRACK | [ARCHIVE VIEW]
MAJOR ART INTERVENTIONS
2025 | The Aftermath of Safety First! Vol II (Solo Show: Installation, Painting, Assemblage), Calea Victoriei 91-93 Gallery, Bucharest.
•2025 | Safety First! (Solo Show), Dalgart, Craiova.
•2023 | Time Patterns in the Library (Site-Specific Installation), Carol 53 Gallery, Bucharest.
•2023 | Here They Lived (Painting & Object Installation), Blue Biennale / Apollonia Cultural Bank, Brașov.
•2021 | Fragmentum (Painting, installation, Research-Based), Ghetărie Gallery, Centrul de Cultura Palatele Brâncovenesti de la Portile Bucurestiului, Mogoșoaia.
•2019 | #clorofilia (Solo Show, Painting), Cabinetul Cultural, Craiova.SELECTED ART GROUP EXHIBITIONS & FAIRS
•2025 | MoBu Art Fair, Represented by Gallery 88, Bucharest.
•2025 | IdentitA-E-R 3, Gallery 9, Brașov.
•2024 | Soulscapes ed. IV, Brâncovenesc Palaces, Mogoșoaia.
•2024 | Mirabilis Hortus – In Omni Tempore, Apollonia Cultural Bank, Brașov.
•2023 | Weed Up (International participation), Dalgart Gallery, Bucharest.
•2021 | Bruises (Mail Art Group Exhibition), Galateca, Bucharest.
•2021 | Blue Biennale (Large scale object installation), Brașov.
RESEARCH & PUBLICATIONS | THEORETICAL VALIDATION
•2026 (Upcoming) | Mirorred Chimaeras: A Meta Modern Research on the Visuality of the Human-Plant Hybrids (2 volumes).
•2022 | Art Intervention: The Childhood of the Matriarch Elephant, Arta Magazine (Issue dedicated to the Venice Biennale).
•2021 | Fragmentum (Article, research-based art), Observator Cultural.
•2021 | Research articles, Museikon
•2019 | Moscow Reporter Vol II(Article, Mozaicul).\
EDUCATION & ACADEMIC STATUS
•MA in Visual Studies (Critical Plant Studies), CESI – Center of Excellence in Image Study, University of Bucharest.
•Mentor , for students enrolled at WDKA, Rotterdam (Illustration & Image Analysis).
•BA – University of Bucharest, Art, Applied Aesthetics/Modern Languages
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