Games People Play February 28, 2024 Taking her personal photographic archive as a reference point, from which she constructs a painting about nudity, nature, embracing the body, and ways of living, Roxana Ajder is one of the bravest artists of her generation.Her painting develops extensive series of various formats in which the naked body is displayed with an almost disarming naturalness, while managing to animate…
Born in Galaţi, Romania, on October 16, 1991, Roxana Ajder is a contemporary painter currently living and working in Cluj-Napoca. Her work addresses issues related to the ambivalent features of the concept of femininity and beauty in contemporary society. She is particularly interested in the plasticity of the human body. In 2020, due to her love of art and determination…
Wholy Mother September 20, 2021 October 2018. I’m sitting in the garden of the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni in Venice—Peggy Guggenheim’s former home, now a museum—staring at Jenny Holzer’s work “Garden Bench”, a very long modular bench sculpted from white stone, engraved with a poem. I froze as I read the following lines—lines I still don’t understand why they struck…