HOMELAND | MARIA GUŢU

Leica Gallery Boston is proud to present our upcoming exhibition, Homeland, featuring the work of photographer Maria Guțu.

In 2024, Guțu was honored with the Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award for this poignant series of black-and-white photographs, which explore life in the Republic of Moldova. Through a dreamlike visual language, Homeland reveals the quiet resilience of a country marked by economic hardship, high unemployment, and emigration. Around one quarter of the population has left the country in the last twenty years for economic reasons. Left behind are either those who are too old to go abroad to work – and the children of those who have departed. Maria Guțu is one of those children. Raised by her grandparents in a isolated area in northern Moldova, she processes her memories of that time through these images created between 2019 and 2023.

Join us for the opening reception on Friday, November 7, from 6–8 PM at Leica Gallery Boston.

More information about Guțu can be found here.

More information about the LOBA Awards can be found here.

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