My Fair Shadow

My Fair Shadow explores how coping mechanisms are passed down from mother to daughter, becoming inherited forms of protection. Drawing on the visual language of shadow theatre, the exhibition presents a series of animated silhouettes exchanging animal masks associated with stereotypes used to ridicule or diminish women. Through a repeated ritual of disguise and transformation, the characters reclaim these identities as sources of strength, questioning which inherited behaviours continue to protect us and which we can leave behind.

Curator

Gia Țidorescu

CURATOR

Georgia is a curator based in Bucharest. Active in exhibition production and coordination since 2018, she has worked with cultural institutions and organizations including the Art Encounters Biennial and Asociația Culturală Contrasens, and has developed curatorial projects at venues across Romania, including Kunsthalle Bega, Rezidența9, Scânteia+, /SAC, Minerva, Indecis, Borderline, …

Artist

Anca Raluca Memete

Anca Raluca Memete is a graduate of the Faculty of Design in Arad, where she completed both her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Design and Product Development. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Doctoral School of Arts at the West University of Timișoara.

Her artistic practice explores collective and personal memory, identity, and the narrative fictions that shape perception. Interested in speculative forms and alternative storytelling structures, the artist investigates ways of constructing meaning through images, with a particular focus on book illustration and animation.

Her work has been exhibited at venues including the Czech Centre Gallery in Bucharest and the Kinema Ikon exhibition space at the Arad Art Museum. She has also participated in cultural projects and events such as Laborator Speculativ (Timișoara, 2023), Media Art Festival Arad (2024), and Particles Festival (Arad, 2018–2024).