Ekaterina Tiuhta | Symbiotic Drift
Ekaterina Tiuhta is a Moldovan artist whose practice emerges at the intersection of trauma, folklore, and displacement. Her work is rooted in lived experience: a childhood marked by multiple surgeries, prosthetics, and skin grafts. These medical interventions, intended to heal, became for her metaphors of care inseparable from violence.
Working across painting, installation, and monumental formats, Tiuhta explores fragmented identity and imposed transformation, both physical and political. The visual language of Moldovan folklore recurs in her work, not as idealization but as a wound that must be restitched. In recent projects she has engaged with the Ilizarov apparatus as a symbol of systemic control, identity correction, and the paradox of pain converted into growth.
Her practice addresses the politics of the wounded body, the legacy of violence, and the absurdity of repair. It oscillates between intimacy and monumentality, framing art as a site of resistance, memory, and radical reconstruction.
She studied monumental painting at the Repin Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg. Recent exhibitions include Two Colors (Romanian Embassy, Belgrade, 2025), Final Degree Exhibition (Repin Academy, 2024), and Collective Shadows (Saint Petersburg, 2023). Her mural Red Troika is permanently installed at Manufacture 10|12 in St. Petersburg.
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Crusifix, 2025
Skin Unit, 2025
2025
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