Andreea Stoica makes paintings that place human figures in situations that feeling makes real but physics does not permit — a woman walking on water, a man whose shadow belongs to someone else, a room that ends where the light ends and offers no wall beyond. The figures are handled with realist technique that makes their impossible predicament all the more disorienting.
She studied in Bucharest and Florence, and has been developing her surrealist practice for eight years. The paintings are slow to make and rarely produced in series — each one is a self-contained investigation of a single impossible proposition. She does not accept commissions.
