At Galateea Contemporary Art, the exhibition Stâlpnici, signed by Otilia Efros, can be visited by the public until March 10.

“The ascetic must sharpen his will; he has understood that all people share the same nature. Therefore, because some do not pray at all, he remains constantly in prayer; because others eat and drink excessively, he fasts; because the lust of the flesh is for many a source of poison, he humbly preserves himself in perfect chastity. That is why I can only bow before the stylite who stands motionless upon his stele…”
Excerpts from The Stylite Saints (1923) by Hippolyte Delehaye – trans. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sofia Dima

“These words written in 1923 are just as relevant in 2026 (more than a century later). Why? Because they are the framework of European society, its foundation and cornerstone… the walls have been destroyed, exploded, rebuilt, and recomposed, yet the base has remained—the Christian religion—upon which European society has each time been reborn.
At Galeria Galateea (11.02 – 10.03.2026), Otilia Efros, visual artist, Master’s graduate in Sculpture/Ceramics from the Faculty of Arts and Design, West University of Timișoara, invites us to the exhibition Stâlpnici in order to reveal this steadfast foundation from which the designers of European society may begin to rebuild….”
Iulian Virtopeanu, curator

“The installation Stâlpnici revisits the figure of the vertical ascetic as a limit-form of existence: the body withdrawn from the world, raised upon a pillar, suspended between earth and sky. The work does not illustrate canonical saints, but proposes instead a typology of assumed isolation, of resistance through stillness, and of a corporeality eroded by time, faith, and matter.”
Otilia Efros