Ioana Barbu's paintings combine the precision of realist technique with subjects and situations that cannot exist — architecture that opens onto impossible spaces, figures that cast the wrong shadows, rooms that contain more than their dimensions allow. She builds this pictorial logic carefully and with deliberate slowness, which is partly why the impossible elements feel grounded rather than theatrical.
She studied at the National University of Arts in Bucharest and has been working in surrealist modes for over a decade, developing a visual language that is entirely her own. She accepts commissions from collectors comfortable with giving her significant creative freedom.
