Elena Militaru is a Romanian surrealist painter, born in 1999 and currently based in Barcelona.

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Her work comes from curiosity. People, memory, time, and the strange ways we experience the world around us. She paints intuitively, allowing ideas and characters to appear without needing to fully understand where they come from.

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Faces have become a recurring language in her work. They appear distorted, fragmented or hidden. Rather than representing specific people, they belong to an inner world that continues to grow from one painting to the next.

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Her latest work, The White Collection, strips much of the surrounding world away. Against raw white surfaces, the figures are left with space to exist on their own. Imperfect, strange and exposed.

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At the centre of Elena’s practice is a simple idea: to stay curious.

To keep looking,

imagining

and finding something extraordinary in the ordinary.

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