The True Faces of Me -Ministry of Culture, Bucharest

Presented in 2013 within the halls of the Ministry of Culture, Beba’s solo exhibition marked a significant turning point in her artistic trajectory. Unlike her earlier presentations centered on exterior movement and chromatic rhythm, this exhibition turned inward—toward the architecture of emotion, memory, and the intangible structure of the self.

At the core of the exhibition was the series The True Faces of Me, a collection of drawings that approached identity not as a fixed construct but as a constantly shifting constellation of states. Anxiety, equilibrium, stubbornness, curiosity, and tranquility appeared not as literal illustrations, but as gestural fields of line and form—each piece revealing a facet of an internal landscape. Interwoven with them were larger, hybrid compositions in which dense black line structures collided with bold chromatic forms, evoking psychological tension, escape, collapse, and renewal.

Installed across the Ministry’s clean, spacious rooms, the works created an immersive environment of emotional resonance. The rhythmic transparency of layered lines allowed viewers to step into the drawings’ interior spaces, while the solid chromatic forms anchored the compositions with an unmistakable human presence.

The exhibition affirmed Beba’s ability to merge expressive clarity with conceptual depth. It introduced her as an artist capable of rendering the motion of the mind with the same precision and grace she applies to the body—and solidified her standing within Romania’s contemporary cultural landscape.