CLUJ afterSCHOOL: On the Curator–Artist Dichotomy // Xenia Tinca: Maria Stoica – A World Slightly Elsewhere
SABOT•Dec 11, 2025 — Feb 15, 2026
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There are worlds that do not reveal themselves through abrupt assertion but through a gradual gliding, through a subtle shift in the perception (or definition) of reality. These are worlds—visual, emotional, and dreamlike at the same time—that do not impose themselves, but insinuate themselves into the fabric of the real; they do not overwhelm like eruptions, but rather envelop like emanations of a vibrant and delicate creative imagination. They are worlds constructed as though they were an echo of a parallel dimension, adjacent to the realm of the visible commonplace, and yet radically distinct from it. Maria Stoica is an artist who builds her pictorial universe in such imaginative crevices and topological interstices: a visual world inhabited by seemingly familiar objects that nonetheless lose their usual, gravitational docility and yield to deconstruction and reconstruction under the diffuse action of the imaginative force field, in ways reminiscent of the entitie…
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CLUJ afterSCHOOL: On the Curator–Artist Dichotomy // Xenia Tinca: Maria Stoica – A World Slightly Elsewhere
SABOT•Dec 11, 2025 — Feb 15, 2026
Press Release
There are worlds that do not reveal themselves through abrupt assertion but through a gradual gliding, through a subtle shift in the perception (or definition) of reality. These are worlds—visual, emotional, and dreamlike at the same time—that do not impose themselves, but insinuate themselves into the fabric of the real; they do not overwhelm like eruptions, but rather envelop like emanations of a vibrant and delicate creative imagination. They are worlds constructed as though they were an echo of a parallel dimension, adjacent to the realm of the visible commonplace, and yet radically distinct from it. Maria Stoica is an artist who builds her pictorial universe in such imaginative crevices and topological interstices: a visual world inhabited by seemingly familiar objects that nonetheless lose their usual, gravitational docility and yield to deconstruction and reconstruction under the diffuse action of the imaginative force field, in ways reminiscent of the entitie…
