Friendship

Friendship / Prietenie, mixed media (textiles, wood, wire), 3 x 6 meters, 2023

In recent years, Silvia has been using drawing as a therapeutic manner, incorporating words and exploring areas of the subconscious. She delves into the complexity and influence of personal memories and transgenerational memory.

The works involving words require working with text, selecting words or sentences that hold strong personal significance for the artist, and transforming them through drawing, textures, and structures. The word-drawings tenderly address matters of the mind and heart.

The artwork titled “Prietenie / Friendship,” which the artist intends to exhibit as part of the Lockout Stereotypes project, is inspired by her personal experiences from childhood—a sincere and beautiful friendship. This piece represents new approaches in her artistic evolution, using a technique she hasn’t experimented with before. While paper has been the support for her word drawings, in this ongoing project, her practice extends to textiles, fusing mixed media techniques.

The work is commissioned by AMES Association for the Lockout Stereotypes. Counter-cliché exhibition. This project is financed with the support of EEA Grants 2014-2021 within the RO-CULTURE Programe

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WASP – Working Art Space & Production, Bucharest, RO / Prahova County Museum “Ion Ionescu Quintus”, Ploiesti, RO

Lockout Stereotypes is a cooperation project between Romania and Norway, coordinated by the Art Media Events Studio Association, with the participation of the 4Culture Association and the Fiksdal Dans Foundation (Oslo), which takes place in the cities of Ploiești and Bucharest from September 2022 to April 2024.