Luana Closca’s current series was formulated while wandering through museum collections. Among well-known works of art and unknown artifacts, she searched for manifestations of shifting projections of intimacy and violence, particularly their strange overlap when left unfulfilled. Working with preexisting artistic material, she is interested in the social, cultural, and political motivations that underpinned modes of portrayal at a given moment in history and how these translate into their aesthetic function today. Referencing an art-historical and literary past she is locating the fulfillment of her work in the potential biases and assumptions a viewer brings to a recognizable image.
   In the process of being depicted and then perceived, what happens to an image as it passes through a chain of voyeurs? In working with imagery that may be read as erotic or violent, she seeks to recalibrate the image to include the pleasure of watching a body at being, and both the culpability and awkwardness of the voyeur.
   Luana Closca was born in 2003 in Romania and currently lives and works between Cluj-Napoca and Berlin.