BIO
Anca Irinciuc is a Romanian visual artist whose practice centres on drawing. Working primarily with blue ballpoint pen, she explores tension, psychological boundaries and human presence.
Her artistic practice has evolved through painting, collage and photography, with drawing becoming her primary focus in recent years. Through her series exploring the human figure and landscape, she investigates perception, memory and emotional states.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I draw from things I see, both in everyday life and through images encountered online, but the drawing transforms them. What begins as observation gradually becomes something more personal.
I draw slowly, one mark at a time, using blue ballpoint pen. The pen is both my medium and my limit. I cannot erase, so every decision remains on the page. This makes me careful, yet the hand continues to vary in pressure, rhythm and small hesitations. The time a drawing takes remains visible in it.
Figures and landscapes function similarly in my work: not as portraits or specific places, but as ways of holding an emotional experience. A gesture, a turned-away gaze or an open field can express what is difficult to articulate directly.
I use selective realism, at times pushing certain areas towards hyperrealism while allowing others to remain open. In the tension between what is clearly seen and what is withheld, the image can move beyond its subject.
At its strongest, a drawing becomes more than a transformation of what I first observed. It carries the attention, uncertainty and decisions accumulated in its making.
