Ioana Vrabie

Press portrait of Ioana Vrabie for The Flight exhibition at The Charoen AArt, Bangkok.

Artist Statement

Artist Statement


At the heart of my work is a quiet longing: the search for home. Not a place, but a feeling of belonging, stillness, and truth.


My experience of migration, constant movement, and instability has led me into a recurring state of flight, both as physical movement through space and as an inner flight through daydreaming. It has shaped how I see, remember, and recognise myself in the world.


At the same time, this condition of movement has opened a way of seeing that is expansive rather than fixed. Through my experience as a flight attendant, I inhabit a continuous crossing of geographies and atmospheres.


Photography emerged within this space as a form of self-revelation: a way to process experience, to hold complexity, and to recognise myself within it.


Through analogue multiple exposures and optical interventions, I bring together different places and moments into a single image. What emerges is something closer to how memory operates: layered, shifting, and never fully complete.


My work moves between what is seen and what is felt, within what I define as psychophysical photography.



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About


Ioana Vrabie is an artist based in Barcelona whose work originates from a search for home, not as a fixed place, but as a state of peace. She works in contemporary photography, expanding her practice towards hybrid and installation-based forms.


Shaped by experiences of migration and constant movement, her practice explores memory and perception as embodied processes rather than purely visual ones. It is grounded in what she defines as psychophysical photography.

Education

  • Photography, University of the Arts London
  • Communication Sciences (Cinema Studies), University of Udine

Highlights


Her work has been recognised internationally, including the New York Resilience Award and the Refocus Awards.


She has also been nominated for the Color Awards, International Photography Awards (IPA), and the Bridgeman Studio Award.


Her photographs are held in private collections in the United Kingdom, France, Switzerland, Austria, Spain, Italy, and the United States.

Exhibitions

  • D Contemporary Gallery, London
  • Visual Artists Association
  • PH21 Gallery
  • Valid World Photo, Barcelona


Her work has also been featured on platforms such as Artdoc,
contributing to a wider dialogue around perception, memory,
and the evolving language of photography.

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