2/3 Gallery presents the exhibition “Young Masters: A Feminist Gaze”, a group exhibition that brings together the dissertation works of artists Alexandra Cojocaru, Teodora Rotaru and Ioana Jantea, graduates of the master’s program within the Department of Photo-Video, National University of Arts Bucharest. Curated by Dumitrița Moroșanu, the exhibition marks a stage of synthesis and artistic affirmation, at the border between the educational and professional process.
The opening will take place on Thursday, June 26, starting at 6:00 PM at 2/3 Gallery in the presence of the artists with music by Ana Satana.
“The title of the exhibition proposes a critical dialogue with the established notion of great masters, evoking the traditional artistic canon, but placing it in a tense and fruitful relationship with the feminist perspective. Young Masters simultaneously implies continuity and rupture: an emerging generation that claims the tools of visual expression to interrogate aesthetic norms, power dynamics and historical forms of exclusion. The feminist gaze becomes here an intersectional lens through which personal and collective narratives are examined and rewritten. Photography acquires critical and affective valences, transforming itself into an epistemic gesture – an act of knowledge and visual resistance.
In this direction, Alexandra Cojocaru explores the Bucharest drag scene through the project The Queens – Documenting the Artistic Drag Scene in Bucharest, capturing intimate moments behind the scenes of night shows and transforming them into vibrant, sincere and empathetic visual narratives. Her photographs on film build an imposing portrait of the subjects, honoring their personal stories in an intersectional key. Ioana Jantea, through In Flagrant Delicto: Archive of a Night Body, recovers fragments of her own history, combining film photography with affective memory to recontextualize moments and connections from her past, in an open, fluid archive, where photography becomes a vehicle of atmosphere and introspection. Teodora Rotaru, with the project Nexus, imagines an esoteric world governed by a matriarchal cult, where Polaroid photography, video art, textual interventions, and the creation of a Bible-Grimoire make up a personal mythology that interrogates the relationship between ritual, fiction and truth. Each of these approaches complements the exhibition’s stakes, proposing new ways of looking at, documenting and rewriting reality from a reflective and sensitive perspective.” (curatorial text)
Alexandra Cojocaru is a visual artist and genetics resident, with a practice focused on portrait photography, intimacy and the representation of marginalized communities. She has exhibited at Art Safari and MARe, and collaborated with VICE Romania and Scena9. Teodora Rotaru is an interdisciplinary artist interested in ritual, mythology, and the re-signification of self-representation. She has participated in international exhibitions and festivals, including the European Biennial of Object Books (2025), IMAF Serbia and events in Greece and Romania. Ioana Jantea is a visual artist trained in the UK and Romania, concerned with feminism and identity. She has exhibited in Bucharest at Art Safari Young Blood and Galeria 51 Design, and internationally at Spilt Milk London and UGLY in Macerata, Italy. Ioana is also active in curating artistic projects. Dumitrița Moroșanu is a young researcher in the field of visual arts, with a particular interest in photography and photographic archives. She graduated from the National University of Arts in Bucharest, Department of Art History and Theory, and continued her studies at the CESI master’s degree.
