Hort­ensia Mi Kafchin was born in the Roma­nian city of Galați in 1986. In 2010 she grad­u­ated from the Uni­ver­sity of Art and Design in Cluj, where she had spe­cialised in pottery, glass and metal.(…) Kafchin has a dis­tinc­tive canon of motifs which, like a kalei­do­scope, reflect the collage-like visual envi­ron­ment of our media age. Hers is a fas­cinat­ing iconog­ra­phy where sci­ence fic­tion blends with ancient myths. There are frequent encounters between humans and machines, some­times as adver­sar­ies, but mostly as hybrids. Kafchin’s fig­ures, how­ever, are not heroic symbols of technical per­fec­tion and supe­r­i­or­ity, but sensi­tive and melan­choly mechan­ical beings whose sta­tus hov­ers between sub­ject and object. Indeed, Kafchin often depicts the human body as a build­ing site under­go­ing transforma­tion. These bod­ies might be surrounded by scaffold­ing, placed in chem­ical lab­o­rato­ries or exposed to med­ica­tion. (source Galerie Judin)