Adela Giurgiu (b.1990) returns almost obsessively to several themes that occupy her pictorial workspace and which, viewed together, seem to outline a universe marked by alienation, duality, isolation, and dreaming, all amplified by the tensions of spaces in which they reside. The shadow motif can suggest both the Jungian archetype and a metaphor of time as if inspired by Haruki Murakami’s writings about timeless worlds and subterranean levels, where the shadow clips out on the boundary between reality and fiction. Adela Giurgiu’s recent paintings (the cycles You and Your Shadow, Lost but Found, Apparition, and others) contribute to a dialogue with Ioana Batrânu’s favorite themes, nurturing the same lonely and heavy atmosphere, in which only the imagination can cut small slits of light.