Greta Bratescu made those works whilst under the communist regime in Romania. She had limited materials at hand and often incorporated pieces of her mother’s clothing and textiles into her art. She used a sewing machine to turn drawing into a physically challenging act, one she compared to “sport”.
These works express the artist’s long time fascination to Medea, a sorceress from Greek mythology who appealed to the artist for her emotional complexity, a heroin for whom passion love and hate are equally powerful emotional motivations.
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