Works
Composition in Blue and Yellow
Weaving with hand-dyed cotton threads
Quadriptych
Textile installation, mixed technique
Raw Materials
Hand-dyed cotton threads
The Art of Weaving Emotions
Welcome to the textile universe of Ioana Ciuciulica, where threads are transformed into artistic expressions.
Ioana Ciuciulică
Ioana Ciuciulică was born in Eastern Europe during the communist era.
As a teenager, dissatisfied with the fashion offer in Romania after the fall of dictatorship, Ioana began working with textiles, creating her own designs, and quickly achieved success within her community.
In 2007, she began a multi-year exploration across different media in search of her artistic means of expression: audiovisual production, graphic design, metals, gemstones, soutache, 3D modeling and more. This exploration gave her a clear sense of the path she wanted to pursue: not staying on the surface but going deeper into her preferred medium—textiles. In 2020, she enrolled in the Faculty of Arts in Bucharest (Romania), specialising in Weaving. In 2021, her research took her for several months to Vienna (Austria) through the Erasmus+ program, where she encountered new approaches to learning. While completing the last year of her Master’s degree, Ioana Ciuciulică developed her own technique combining tapestry and felting, which became her signature.
In 2025, her first solo exhibition was held, showcasing her Master’s work.
Stitching Human Sufferance
We are only human. We are only temporary. Each day brings the thought of incompleteness. We cannot see what others experience; we know nothing of their inner lives.
Through my textile work, I address human suffering not as a problem to be solved, but as something to be acknowledged, honoured, and transformed. The thread becomes a means of connecting disparate experiences, of building bridges between isolated lives.
The process of weaving and mending thus becomes a metaphor for collective healing—not by erasing scars, but by integrating them into a new fabric, richer and more complex.
Techniques and Details
My work explores a variety of textile techniques, ranging from traditional weaving to experimental approaches. Each piece is conceived as a dialogue between the material and the artistic intention.
Relief Weaving
Detail showing the interaction of blue and green threads
Watercolour and Thread
Integration of mixed techniques
Philosophy
“Weaving is not merely a technique; it is a way of thinking about the world, of connecting disparate elements to create a harmonious whole.”
Patching Maya’s Veil
My work explores the fundamental question: “What is reality?” and the space between reality and illusion. In the philosophical tradition, Maya’s veil represents the illusion that prevents us from perceiving the true nature of things. Through my weavings, I attempt to repair these fragmented perceptions and to build bridges between different understandings of the world.
Filling Voids of Reason
When certainties slip away, when the sound of the wind falls silent, when the echo of footsteps ceases, it is in these voids that art finds its place. My textile works seek to inhabit these spaces of silence, to give form to the unspeakable, and to weave connections between seemingly contradictory ideas.
Thus, the process of weaving becomes a meditation on how we interpret the world and give it meaning—an act of resistance against fragmentation and isolation.
Exposition
My (Big) Book of Mending the World
Exhibition period: 3–30 June 2025
Opening reception: 14 June 2025, 5:00 p.m.
Venue: Centre of Culture “Brâncoveanu Palaces”, Mogoșoaia / Foișor Gallery
Supervising professor: Lecturer Dr Iulia Toma
This exhibition presents the outcome of my research into the relationship between textile art and the symbolic repair of the world. Through a series of textile works, I explore the themes of connection, healing, and transformation.
The pieces on display combine traditional weaving techniques with contemporary approaches, using hand-dyed threads in shades of blue, yellow, and green to create compositions that evoke both the natural landscape and human emotions.
Contact
For any enquiries, exhibitions, or collaborations, please feel free to contact us.
Email: contact@ioanaciuciulica.com
Instagram: @ioanaciuciulica