The exhibition takes an atemporal lens to seventeen paintings made over the last three decades: each work holds the weight of its own against time, each its own ‘now’ of Cepleanu’s complete immersion in a moment. Like the quiet discipline of Renaissance still lifes, Cepleanu’s compositions privilege attention over spectacle, repetition over climax. Her practice is rooted in a dynamic oscillation between detail and whole: a process of zooming in and out, deeply embedding her observation in the materiality of painting itself, each brushstroke claiming absolute focus. Whether portraying her children, herself, or fragments of the natural world, Cepleanu’s works reveal a sincere attention to her daily life in Bucharest.
