Laura Partin

Laura Partin born in 1986 is a multidisciplinary artist based in Bucharest whose practice spans drawing, video and installation. Her work is primarily focused on contemporary drawing techniques and combines poetic imagery and conceptual inquiry, addressing themes of environmental fragility, gender invisibility and human vulnerability. Laura studied Fine Arts and Art Theory at the George Enescu University of Arts in Iași, and between 2012 and 2014 she was a Fine Arts fellow at the Romanian Cultural Institute in Venice. In 2021, she obtained a PhD in Fine Arts from Paris 8 University, where she developed research about the phenomenon of deception in modern and contemporary art practices. Her recent series deepens her engagement with ecological concerns. Through delicate watercolor and ink drawings, she evokes the disappearance of aquatic biodiversity and the shifting boundaries between myth and reality. Currently, Laura is also developing , an immersive installation that combines drawing, sound, and performance to illuminate the lives of women artists who persevered in the face of exclusion and adversity. Across her body of work, Laura Partin constructs a dialogue between intimacy and collectivity, personal memory and shared history. Her art reveals the subtle interdependence between humans and their environments, social, emotional, and ecological, transforming drawing and installation into acts of remembrance, resistance, and renewal.