Painting What Can’t Be Said: Stillness, Emotion, and Growth - A Werkstattwoche-Lüben-Talk with Valeria Duca
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In this episode, painter Valeria Duca opens up about her artistic evolution — from a prodigy in Chișinău, Moldova, to an established artist based in Oslo. She recalls her first art sale at just fourteen, when the Romanian Minister of Youth and Sports bought one of her paintings, marking the start of a lifelong calling.
Valeria talks about her early self-portraits that captured depression and healing, her politically charged work on the war in Ukraine, and her recent focus on memory — fragmented and fluid, just like our thoughts. At the Werkstattwoche, she experimented with repetition, composition, and the tension between control and chaos.
This conversation moves through childhood ambition, artistic frustration, and the beauty of imperfection — reminding us that creativity often lives between stillness and emotion.
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