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Natasha LelencoAcrylic on Wood Queer Migrant Portrait on Mauve Background. Currency #2632025
2025
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Contemporary mauve-toned circular portrait in acrylic on wood exploring queer migration, self-reclamation, and identity through figurative painting and handwritten text.
Currency #263 belongs to Natasha Lelenco’s ongoing Currencies series and portrays the profile of a young queer individual with tight, natural curls, gazing outward with poised intensity. Set against a muted mauve background, the figure is painted with careful attention to detail, highlighting softness and strength in equal measure. The hand-painted inscription surrounding the portrait reads: “Vine lejos para estar más cerca de mí misma”, which translates from Spanish as: “I came far to be closer to myself.”
The phrase articulates a deeply personal and political truth: for many LGBTQ+ individuals, migration becomes a form of liberation—a means to live authentically. This piece stands as a quiet but powerful reflection on the emotional geography of queerness, displacement, and belonging.
Painted in acrylic on a 26 cm circular panel of treated pine wood, the work is finished and varnished by the artist with fully painted edges. As in all Currencies, the physical object bridges painting and sculpture, and is conceived to function both as a singular statement and as part of modular, wall-mounted installations.
Beyond its conceptual strength, the Currencies series has been designed for installation adaptability. Each circular piece operates autonomously but is also conceived to work in combination with others from the series. Collectors and designers can create multi-panel arrangements that grow in scale and intensity, functioning as sculptural friezes or modular visual poems. These scalable constellations form a powerful visual chorus around the theme of identity, allowing flexibility for both private collections and institutional displays.
All works in the series also participate in a conceptual value system: prices are individually determined, symbolizing the arbitrary nature of social and market-based value, while each piece retains the capacity to be exchanged in the future for another work by Lelenco—turning each coin into a living currency within her artistic economy.
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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: LU2626216398172
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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