ANA MARIA MICU
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Etchings of Inhabited Fiction
31 Drawings
2026, Winsor Newton Black Indian Ink on Canson Imagine paper 350 gsm, 30.3 x 22 cm. paper size each

This series of drawings emerges from the tension between the ephemeral nature of digital memory and the enduring weight of the imaginal refuge. While the visual language references the aesthetic of deteriorated digital photographs, marked by the glitches and erosions of time, the manually drawn inscription is rooted in the deliberate, physical tradition of the gravure.
Following Gaston Bachelard’s assertion that "true images are engravings," these works are not merely observations of space, but acts of inhabiting. By translating the flicker of a digital fiction into the permanence of ink, the process mimics the way imagination deepens lived memories to transform them into something more absolute.
These environments are built from a multi-sensory recall; they are etched with the implied textures of touch, the phantom echoes of sound, and the heavy atmosphere of a centered solitude. They do not seek the picturesque of a geographic location, but rather the intensity of essence found in the act of dwelling. In this space, the fiction becomes a truth, a transcendent absolute of the refuge where the soul finds its center amidst the decay of the seen world.

« La hutte de l'ermite, voilà bien une gravure princeps ! Les vraies images sont des gravures. L'imagination les grave dans notre mémoire. Elles approfondissent des souvenirs vécus, elles déplacent des souvenirs vécus pour devenir des souvenirs de l'imagination. La hutte de l'ermite est un thème qui n'a pas besoin de variations. Dès la plus simple évocation, le « retentissement phénoménologique » efface les médiocres résonances. La hutte de l'ermite est une gravure qui souffrirait d'un excès de pittoresque. Elle doit recevoir sa vérité de l'intensité de son essence, l'essence du verbe habiter. Aussitôt, la hutte est la solitude centrée. [...] Notre passé de légendes transcende tout ce qui a été vu, tout ce que nous avons personnellement vécu. L'image nous mène. Nous allons à la solitude extrême. L'ermite est seul devant Dieu. [...] De dépouillement en dépouillement, elle nous donne accès à l'absolu du refuge. »
— Gaston Bachelard, La Poétique de l’espace (1957), Presses Universitaires de France, p. 58.
  • Works
    • On canvas >
      • 2025 - 2026
      • 2023 - 2024
      • 2021 - 2022
      • 2019 - 2020
      • 2017 - 2018
      • 2015 - 2016
      • 2011 - 2013
      • 2009 - 2010
      • 2007 - 2008
    • On Paper >
      • 2026
      • 2025
      • 2022
      • What Hurts the Most Is Left for Last
      • The Apprentice with no Sorcerer
      • Sketchbook
    • Animations
    • Serigraphy
    • Videos
  • Projects
    • SOLO EXHIBITIONS >
      • The Persistence of Looking
      • Soul, Air, Animal
      • Woman, Scaffolding
      • This Is Not an Artspace
      • Left Hand To Distant View
      • Objects Must Be Comfortable
      • A Picture on the Wall
      • Self-portrait with Indoor Plant
      • Tender Heart, Keep Still!
    • DUO EXHIBITIONS >
      • Speaking About the Unknown
      • A Conscious Choice for Temporary Blindness
      • Understatement
      • Abstract Circle
    • COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS
    • Visiting Artist >
      • Visiting Artist at National Tsing Hua University
    • RESIDENCIES >
      • The Insufficiency of Self
      • ​Can Serrat Art Residency
      • Production as Tableau Vivant
      • How to Mend Unbroken Things
    • OTHERS >
      • Eminescu Days
      • Scenography for Painting
      • The Wall Watcher
      • Freehand Digital Drawing Documented by Real-time Video Screen Capturing
      • Changing Background
      • Image Search
      • The Presentation
  • Publications
    • Touch Nature
    • PULS 20 – New Entries in the MNAC Collection
    • THE TWIST. Five Provincial Stories from an Empire
    • The other face of the world
    • (c​)​ovid's metamorphoses
    • Ana Maria Micu. Left Hand To Distant View
    • Ana Maria Micu
    • 500 Portraits
  • Art Fairs
    • Frieze Seoul 2025
    • Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
    • Frieze Seoul 2024
    • Art Taipei 2023
    • Art Taipei 2022
    • Taipei Dangdai 2020
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    • Art Düsseldorf 2018
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