Andreea Medar is from Târgu Jiu, Romania. Her artworks often feature the juxtaposition of contrasting elements, such as the shifting time and space, the mixing of traditional and modern materials, etc. This allows her to rewrite her imagination within the context of personal experience and contemporary events. Medar was born in post-communist Romania in the early 90’s. Due to the economic turmoil at the time, she was sent to be raised by her grandparents in Racoți. It is an isolated village seemingly frozen in time where houses built 150 years ago are still preserved. During her childhood, Medar witnessed the transformation the village underwent, where plastic, “modern” items quickly replaced traditional, hand-made ones; The village is left depopulated and desolate, the houses slowly covered in overgrown wild plants. Inspired by such rapid changes and the fading of traditions, the artist uses transparent plastic, metal tubes, sequins and beads to create an image of her grandparents’ house ---- one that was once converted by her grandfather into the one and only school in the village. In her Forever Garden series, Medar has also created a three-dimensional garden in which vegetables are planted in the same arrangement as that of her grandfather’s garden. Medar hopes to display a spiritual garden, one that exists beyond our space-time continuum, in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic future, one that connects all the descendants to their family root.
Andreea Medar was born in 1990, she currently lives and works in Târgu Jiu and Timișoara, Romania. She graduated with a PhD from the Faculty of Art and Design of the West University of Timișoara with a focus on painting. She later on expanded her creative horizon to sculpture, installation and video. Starting in 2017, she began collaborating with an artist, also the curator and the art critic, Mălina Ionescu. Medar was awarded The Grand Prize at the Young Romanian Artists in Contemporary Creation 2021 contest. Her works are in the permanent collection of the National Contemporary Art Museum of Romania (MNAC), Bucharest and The Art Museum of Timișoara.