Elena Raceala

Elena Raceala is a contemporary visual artist and photographer based in Constanța, Romania. Her work looks for stillness in a noisy world, in the human and urban fragments that seem ordinary at first glance but hold a quiet poetic depth.

She began as a self-taught photographer and completed the School of Photographic Art at the "Teodor Th. Burada" Cultural Center in Constanța in 2019. Her practice has since moved across several languages: cinematic black-and-white photography, surreal staged portraits, serial travel work such as *Radiography of a Journey*, and, most recently, color abstraction through intentional camera movement (ICM) and defocus. What stays constant is her attention to light, to transience, and to the moment just before something disappears.

Her work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Constanța Art Museum (*Fraction of Light*, 2020), in Bucharest and in Turin, and in group exhibitions in Venice, Genoa, Berlin and Palermo. Saatchi Art curators have featured her photographs in several collections. Elena also works as Head Curator for an international art platform and collaborates with the Romanian cultural publication LiterNet.

## ARTIST STATEMENT

I photograph what we usually walk past.

A staircase, a wi...

2024 – "Art Ambassador 2024", Scuola Grande di San Teodoro, Venice, Italy
2024 – "A tutto foto", Palazzo Stella, Genoa, Italy
2023 – "Woman’s Essence", organized by Musa International, Berlin, Germany
2023 – "Photography in the Visual Culture', Centro Internazionale di Fotografia, Palermo, Italy
2022 – "Napoli Insider", Galeria Romană (Fine Art Vision 20/21), Bucharest, Romania
2021 – "Shapes of Living | Living Earth", Art Site Fest, Italgas Heritage Lab, Turin, Italy
2021 – "Tomorrow is another day" ( Solo Exhibition), Galeria Romană, Bucharest, Romania
2020 – "Fraction of Light" (Solo Exhibition), Constanța Art Museum, Romania