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FLORILEGIU.M for U3 FAKTORY

ARTIST PROFILE AND COMPLETE CATALOGUE

"A gathering of flowers"

I am Madalina Ungureanu, aka florilegiu.m, born in the spring of '98. In 2025 I completed my studies at the Academy of Music, Theater and Fine Arts.

Florilegiu comes from Latin and means a gathering of flowers. From early childhood, spending long periods in the countryside at my grandparents’ home, I inherited a deep love for plants and the land, a love passed down from my grandfather. Whenever I was with him in the fields or the garden, I felt a strong sense of permanence and grounding. Time seemed to stand still, and my existence narrowed to a direct connection between myself and nature.

This is how the desire to preserve flowers and plants, the ones I found and gathered from my grandfather’s garden, was born. I pressed them between the pages of books and newspapers, trying to keep their memory alive: the memory of a moment, or a feeling, that I might never experience again. Working with dried and pressed plants, I feel as though I am stopping time and passing this precious sensation on to the viewer through my work.

Photography and Monoprint

Out of this passion for plants also emerged the desire to explore them further and to merge them with an artistic technique. Monoprinting, combined with the application of pressed plants, represents for me an organic fusion of two artistic languages. Through my work, it becomes an act of poetry to convey authentic states of childhood; fragile states, sometimes deeply buried within our adult selves.

From this same place, another interest emerged — photography. Photography allows me to capture ephemeral details, subtle states, and emotions that might otherwise go unnoticed in the hurried pace of everyday life.

At present, I am working on new projects still in the making, built upon the same passion for plants, delicate states, and subtle emotions that I seek to bring to the surface of the viewer’s awareness, works defined by simplicity and depth, values that fully represent me.