The solo exhibition “Renascence of Imaginalia” by artist Andrada Lolu, hosted by Meron Gallery in Cluj-Napoca, is open to the public until September 28th, 2025. The works on view reveal a sensitive territory shaped by memories, visions, and visual traces that resist narrative and remain suspended in their state of appearance.

Initiated in 2023, this body of work stems from a dialogue with the writings of C.S. Lewis, particularly his reflections on imagination as both an affective and cognitive mechanism. For Andrada Lolu, Imaginalia is an interior realm — an imaginative world shaped in childhood and kept alive through sensations, fragile presences, and unexplained signs. It is not fiction, but rather what lingers after the story ends — a subtle form of visual memory.

The works — combining oil painting, graphite, and mixed media — do not follow an explicit narrative. Instead, they invite viewers into a space that is both familiar and cryptic. The texts included do not translate the images, but accompany them in their state of suspension. Each piece acts as a trace, a silent reflection, a suggestion of meaning that resists direct interpretation.

“Through Renascence of Imaginalia, I wanted to present the rebirth of this concept — a metaphorical world that speaks about a Heaven beyond death. The selection focuses on what embodies this rebirth and the exploration of a new universe.”
— Andrada Lolu

The exhibition’s title marks a return to this inner world — yet from a renewed, more objective and liberated perspective. It is a gesture of rediscovery through the lens of creative and spiritual maturity; a reaffirmation of the courage to imagine beyond this world.

This exhibition is part of a broader conceptual project titled On Vigil in Imaginalia, and the current selection invites viewers to step not into a place, but into a state — a lucid vigil over the imaginary, inner time, and emotional memory.

The exhibition remains open at Meron Gallery until September 28th, 2025.