Domestic Dreams I 2024
This image is part of my series In a Continuous Loop, which explores the inherited fears, expectations, and suppressed identities passed down through generations of women in my family. Holding a piece of cutlery belonging to my mother, I engage with an object that symbolizes nourishment and duty, an everyday tool carrying the weight of silent labor and tradition.
The way I obscure my face reflects the tension between conformity and self-erasure, between inheritance and resistance. By transforming a domestic object into a loaded symbol, the image blurs the line between personal history and collective experience.
Domestic Dreams II 2024
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Lacra Grozavescu
Romania
Born in 1996 in the city of Caracal, Romania, Lǎcrǎ explores the power of images to evoke both personal memories and a collective sense of belonging. She seeks to highlight the nuances of human behavior through themes of identity, memory, suffering, trauma, and feminism.
As an emerging artist, Lăcră incorporates embroidery, collage, and video into her practice to create multidimensional projects that invite deeper emotional engagement. In addition to studying Photography and Dynamic Images at the Bucharest National University of Arts, she has also made her mark in the international art scene with exhibitions in Italy, Greece, Japan, the U,K and the US.
Lǎcrǎ was recently selected as a Fresh Eyes Talent 2025 by GUP Magazine and will be presented at the 2025 Haute Photographie Fair in Rotterdam. She currently lives and works in Bucharest focusing on the complexities of contemporary human experience through a diverse range of media.