Dragoș Bădiță

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Trained in painting at the University of Art and Design in Cluj Napoca, where he completed his BA and MA studies, Dragoș Bădiță has developed a figurative practice centred on portraiture, interior states and the unstable relation between body, memory and time. Working mainly in oil and ink, with parallel interests in drawing, linocut, video, generative art and animation, he approaches the image as a site where ordinary, lived moments acquire a quiet psychological density. His portraits and narrative scenes often take their subjects from immediate personal circles, yet avoid anecdotal description through restrained gestures, frontal stillness and carefully staged atmospheres. Bădiță has exhibited in Romania and internationally, with solo presentations including Breath at Ivan Gallery in Bucharest, Light Falls at Anca Poterasu Gallery in Bucharest, Some are Born to Sweet Delight at Anca Poterasu Gallery, and Ironing out the Waves of the Sea at Mind Set Art Center in Taipei. His work has also been shown in the BP Portrait Award exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh and the Ulster Museum in Belfast, as well as in group exhibitions at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest and JD Malat Gallery in London. His visual language draws on medieval religious imagery, Flemish and Danish painting, and contemporary digital experimentation, using mythological and allegorical motifs to examine duration, vulnerability, perception and the difficulty of accessing another consciousness.