Live from Moldova: Artist talk with Maria Guțu

Leica Gallery New York is proud to present Homeland, featuring the work of photographer Maria Guțu.

Join us in the gallery for a very special morning where we will serve traditional Moldovan Plăcinte and Valentine's Day treats welcoming Maria to join us online to take us through the exhibition.

This is a IRL event at the gallery AND will be available to stream online:

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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.

The exhibit will be on view until February 15th, 2026.

More information about Guțu can be found here.

More information about the LOBA Awards can be found here.

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