Victoria Zidaru at ARTISSIMA Fair 2025
We are delighted to return to Artissima Art Fair in Torino. For the gallery's fifth participation, we will be showing Victoria Zidaru in the main section of the fair. Her work comprises immersive, multisensory installations that fuse organic and textile materials with ritual gestures to reflect on the relations between body, nature, and community.
Over four decades, Victoria Zidaru, one of the most important Romanian women artists of her generation, has developed a distinctive visual language that integrates plants, weaving techniques, scents, inscribed words, and ritualistic practices to explore the symbolic dialogue between the individual, nature, and community. The importance of her practice in decolonial terms is deeply grounded in local materials, rituals and vernacular craft carried by rural women’s craft work. Her symbolic lexicon draws from Hildegard von Bingen’s notion of viriditas, the greening force of divine vitality, manifest in vegetal materials, tactile making, chant, and woven text.Recent projects include Refacerea (2025–2026) at Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest; Victoria Zilei (2024–2025) at MARE Museum, Bucharest; Lingua Ignota (2024) at the Istituto della Pietà and Archivi della Misericordia, Venice; Ziua Întâi (2023–2024) at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; Felix Anima (2022) at Palazzo Ca’ Da Mosto, Venice; and Hortus Deliciarum 3 (2019) at the Romanian Cultural Institute, Venice.
