Dorina Costras

In Dorina Costras’s work, the female figure becomes a territory of interiority. Close-up faces, suspended gazes, held breaths: everything suggests a slow tempo, conducive to inner listening.

The painted matter mingles with metallic gleams that catch the light and trace an almost sacred aura around the subjects. Between cool and warm, chromatic contrasts create a sensitive tension in which the skin seems to vibrate. Recurring signs—stars, constellations, fragile wings—open figuration to a gentle symbolism at the edge of dream. Rather than illustrating, each painting summons a state: silence, melancholy, rebirth.

The viewer is invited to come closer, to slow down, to let the colors and gleams do their work. The painting thus becomes a space of luminous silence, where emotion guides the gaze.