BEHOA

Raluca Boca's pictorial practice, known as BEHOA, began in 2010 with an attraction to classical painting and traditional techniques. Her travels to Italy, Norway, and France quickly opened her up to another scale: that of muralism, where the pictorial gesture takes on a monumental dimension and becomes part of the collective space.

The discovery of urban exploration then becomes a privileged field of experimentation. In these abandoned, wild places, BEHOA confronts other constraints, develops a freer gestural style and forges an aesthetic marked by the encounter between raw material and the pictorial act.

Ten years later, this journey brings her back to the workshop.
Her current research tells us of scenes from life and dream scenes intertwined, sometimes confused like upon waking. She reconstructs and celebrates the places she frequents and the daily encounters she experiences through her memories.

BEHOA's work lies at the crossroads of past and present: heir to a rigorous pictorial tradition, it shifts its codes towards a more instinctive language, where the urban and the human meet in an aesthetic of intensity and resonance.