Mimi Ciora is an artist and cultural operator with a multidimensional vision of art and education. She holds a master’s degree in visual arts, specializing in Graphics – Matter and Concept, from the Faculty of Arts and Design in Timișoara, and in 2020 she co-founded the artist-run space Indecis. The space functions as a creative refuge dedicated to promoting contemporary art, supporting artists from diverse fields, and implementing non-formal educational programs.
In her artistic practice, she experiments with drawing, installation, video, performance, and comics, exploring themes such as nonhuman communication, ecology, and the intersections between science and fiction. Her projects demonstrate a deep interest in natural processes and the ways in which they can generate new forms of artistic thought, highlighting both the impact of human intervention on the environment and the subtle connections that bind us together.
It is not easy for me to speak about or create works on that period of my childhood — a fragmented childhood, deprived of safety, especially during the years spent in an apartment building where abuse was in plain sight, yet invisible to those who could have intervened.
Unfortunately, help came only too late, when the traumas were already deeply rooted and physical and emotional suffering had become part of everyday life.
In a context where the promises of change in the early 1990s only deepened precarity, victims were not only ignored but also stigmatized: abused women became “those who make trouble,” “those who don’t work,” “those who are weak.”
I grew up carrying the shame of others and the pain of an unhealed mother, while being judged in exactly the same way as she was. My works speak of this traumatic inheritance, of how deeply domestic violence imprints itself not only on a woman’s body but also on the mind of the child who witnesses it. They form an archive of painful memories, an attempt to transform shame into form and trauma into awareness. Because education, dialogue, and art can sometimes be the beginning of healing.
