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Description
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Executed in: 2021
Medium: painted terracotta
Size: 31 x 23 cm (44 x 37 cm with frame)
Provenance
Courtesy of the artist and Galeria Posibilă
This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Galeria Posibilă
Location
Bucharest, Romania
Description
Gwen is a visual artist living and working in Bucharest. Her practice explores the deeper dimensions of spirituality, religion, and the subconscious, filtered through a dark, sometimes visceral aesthetic in which violence, death, and the sacred coexist. She is interested in drifting, marginal, or deteriorated figures, whom she places in absurd, ritualistic, or hallucinatory scenarios, thus exploring the fragility and transformation of identity.
A graduate of the Painting Department at the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Gwen also studied between 2021 and 2022 at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar in Saarbrücken, Germany. She develops a multidisciplinary practice that includes painting, ceramics, and installation. Her works are marked by a gothic atmosphere and influences from folklore, occultism, and personal mythology. She often uses dark backgrounds and organic materials to construct a liminal space between dream, memory, and revelation, evoking mysterious presences and altered states of consciousness.
The works shown in this booth unfold as a fated narrative, featuring characters that guide a path through a haunted interior. A soothsayer foreshadows what is to come, a carefully staged table setting echoes this sense of predestination. Throughout the works, Gwen reproduces fragments of that setting, symbols and traces that map your passage from the moment of entry to a gradual disappearance. Light flickers as a possible guide, yet the works suggest that rest offers no escape; even in sleep, the story persists, edging toward an inevitable end where only remnants remain. And still, within this trajectory, the artist introduces the possibility of return, a fragile rebirth through the veil, perhaps in another world.
Her most recent solo exhibition Offerings for a Ghost took place in 2025 at Grotto Gallery in Bucharest. Her works propose an intimate and sometimes unsettling relationship with the invisible, whether it be ghosts, latent traumas, or magical rituals.
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