Drawing and painting have accompanied me since childhood. At the age of three, I joined my local school art club, and for years I carried a sketchbook with me, drawing constantly and studying the human body. Anatomy became an early fascination, while colour developed into an instinctive language of expression.

Around the age of eight, I began collecting and pressing plants for my own herbarium. That impulse to observe, collect and preserve still runs through my work today. From the age of thirteen, I attended an art high school in Bucharest, where I specialised in traditional printmaking techniques including lithography, etching and aquatint. My visual practice moves across drawing, painting and photography, and in recent years has expanded further into cyanotype, whose deep blues resonate with a palette I have long returned to in my painting.

Installation is equally central to my work. I often work with the space itself, using light, sound and the placement of objects to shape how a work is experienced. Increasingly, these visual and spatial elements intersect with my olfactory practice, bringing image, colour, material, scent and sound together as different ways of exploring memory, perception and the body.

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Olfactory Pathway I–III, 2026
Cyanotype on paper, approx. 29 × 21 cm each

Olfactory Pathway I–III uses MRI images of my own brain to trace the neurological journey of smell, informed by current research into the neural pathways of olfaction.

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The series follows how an odor moves from perception towards interconnected brain regions involved in emotion, memory and conscious evaluation.

The cyanotype process transforms the medical images into light-sensitive blue impressions, shifting them from clinical documentation towards a personal mapping of perception and memory. The works reflect on how smell can evoke emotional and autobiographical memories before we consciously identify their source. Their imagery also forms the basis of the video projection within Heimat.

Olfactory Pathway I–III was shown as part of From Molecule to Memory, within Traces of Memory, Lange Nacht der Bilder 2026, Kunstfabrik HB55, Berlin.

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Open Studio, Lange Nacht der Bilder 2026

Shown at Open Studio, Lange Nacht der Bilder 2026, 4 September 2026, Berlin. Installation views by Groupshow.eu.

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Living Archives of Hay

Living Archives of Hay began in the hayfields of Transylvania, where I return in the summers to photograph and document the plants that make up the hay and carry its scent. Some are becoming rare or disappearing; others remain part of this changing landscape.

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I turn these photographs into cyanotypes, drawing on the process’s historical connection to botanical study and the work of Anna Atkins, a nineteenth-century English botanist and pioneering photographer who used the technique to document botanical specimens. The series becomes a record of a landscape tied to my earliest olfactory memories.

These six prints are part of an archive that continues to grow.

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The Senses

The Senses is a group of linocuts made in 2020, each printed onto a page taken from a German dictionary. The titles cross one sense into another, exploring how perception is shaped through the interplay of different senses. The print sits over the dictionary definitions, so image and language share a single surface.

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