Refacerea, Victoria Zidaru’s first solo exhibition with Nicodim Gallery, in collaboration with Suprainfinit Gallery, draws on this symbolic continuum. Resonant with Indigenous cosmologies, Eastern spirituality, and Christian mysticism, the work engages archetypes of healing not as metaphors but as active forces. Herbs cleanse and recalibrate; handwoven cloth embodies continuity, linking past traditions with present practice; inscribed words establish rhythm and attention. For over four decades, Romanian artist Victoria Zidaru has transformed natural materials into living structures of ritual and resilience. Towering columns of hay rise as conduits of energy, herbs release delicate scents, and cloth and text interlace matter and spirit. Her installation unfolds as a shared organism, at once fragile and enduring. Collaboration is central to the exhibition: the woven elements were created with the women of Liteni, while commissioned works by Tudor Cucu (film) and Călin Topa (sound installation) are integrated as essential components. The participatory project Donate a Word invites the public to contribute words that become part of the installation itself. Rather than offering resolutions, Zidaru leaves us with a provocation: if resilience is not merely survival, but inseparable from the consolations of the spirit, where can it be cultivated within the fractures of contemporary life? *text by Adina Drinceanu