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Natasha LelencoCurrency #257, 2024, Acrylic on Wood Panel, Conceptual Portrait with Korean Text2025
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Contemporary circular portrait in acrylic on wood, exploring migration, identity, and longing, with Korean inscription and green-yellow palette.
This original acrylic painting on wood belongs to Natasha Lelenco’s ongoing Currencies series, a body of work centered on migration, value, and the emotional architecture of foreignness. Currency #257 presents a detailed female profile rendered in green tones, set against a matte yellow circular background. Painted in 2024 on a 26 cm diameter pine wood panel, the portrait is surrounded by a red Korean inscription that reads: “I wish it existed, but my homeland also calls me.” The phrase introduces themes of imagined belonging, diasporic tension, and fractured identity—core concerns of the Currencies project.
The sculptural format and edge-painted surface allow this work to function as both painting and object. With its bold chromatic scheme and textual intervention, it resonates as a contemporary figurative portrait as much as a conceptual artifact of displacement. Its circular shape echoes the formal logic of coinage, while replacing institutional symbolism with vulnerable, anonymous faces.
The Currencies series proposes an alternative economic logic through its dual pricing concept: each piece may be used in partial exchange for a future artwork by the artist, underlining the precarious valuation of artistic labor and the emotional currency of identity. Works in the series have been exhibited internationally, including at the I Triennial of Tijuana, La Frontera (Dallas), and JustLX Lisboa.
Crafted in acrylic on hand-treated pine wood, this piece is 2 cm thick and comes ready to hang. It may be acquired individually or as part of a multi-panel configuration, ideal for collectors focused on contemporary identity politics, language, and diaspora.
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- Creator:Natasha Lelenco (1982, Spanish, Moldovan)
- Creation Year:2025
- Dimensions:Height: 0.99 in (2.5 cm)Diameter: 10.24 in (26 cm)
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- Gallery Location:FISTERRA, ES
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU2626215750162
Natasha Lelenco
Natasha Lelenco, born in Chișinău, Moldova in 1982, is a prominent Moldovan painter and contemporary artist who has been residing in Galicia, Spain, since 2008. She is especially known for her figurative work, particularly in the realm of portraiture. Holding a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Cluj-Napoca in Romania, her art has been featured in numerous international exhibitions and art fairs. Natasha Lelenco's art has been showcased across exhibitions in Spain, Germany, Denmark, Portugal, Mexico, and beyond. Natasha Lelenco's approach is figurative, primarily centered on the human form, which she understands as an integral part of life rather than its core. Her themes encompass identity, self-awareness, and the role of chance in shaping the value of things and life itself. Her artistic journey has given rise to self-contained series where narrative and format harmonize, often springing from a playful interplay of repetition, color juxtapositions, deformations in pursuit of psychological realism, and a selective use of elements and resources available in her studio. A recurring motif in her work is the creation of panels, which, through repetitive use of representations, weave a narrative. The visual motif of repetition, especially in the portrayal of faces, represents a graphic fixation that captures a world characterized by seriality. To depict this, she frequently draws inspiration from popular art, advertising, and kitsch. The resulting imagery often strikes a tragicomic chord. She finds solace in project-based work, and virtually all her endeavors since dedicating herself professionally to artistic creation revolve around narratives materializing in pieces that often seek to function both collectively and independently.
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