STRATA Presents
GAMES PEOPLE PLAY
by Roxana Ajder
Curated by Adriana Oprea
OPENING RECEPTION
February 28th | 7PM
At Strata Gallery | Parângului 76 Street, Bucharest, Earth
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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 se
Painting nude women and men on the beach and by the pool, Roxana Ajder combines the thread of familial affection with her personal foray into the visuality of the 1960s counterculture, which marked the mores and politics of the latter half of the last century, thus changing the world. Body practices and politics, feminine identity, moral codes, and the individual’s relationship with nature and the natural were fundamentally questioned, and society and art deeply metabolized the wave of change. In pairs or groups that highlight their relaxed connection to each other and to the welcoming context around them, Ajder’s naked bodies are smiling and tonic. Their status as images related to other images (here with photography) highlights t
Roxana Ajder’s characters look at us as we look at them, and the construction of the images sometimes gives them monumental statures. They occasionally emerge in the foreground at the edge of the canvas, thus inviting the spectator into a familiar and common space, which he already intimately shares with the content of the painting, with its frontally displayed bodies
Roxana Ajder (1991, Galaţi) lives and works in Cluj-Napoca. She studied painting and has a Ph.D. on femininity in the history of painting from the University of Art and Design in Cluj – Napoca (2022). She had numerous internships as an art professional at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, Galleria Doris Ghetta (Milan, Ortisei), Galeria Plan B Berlin, Viltin Galéria (Budapest) and Associazione Socio Culturale ProCultura – RoArte di Roma. In 2019, Roxana Ajder was among the finalists of the Biennale Jeune Création Européenne, her works being exhibited in France, Denmark, Latvia, Spain, Portugal, and Romania (2019-2021).