Raluca Buzura

Raluca Buzura’s sculptural ceramic brooch represents a complex layering of rhythmic repetition, dynamic form, and technical finesse. Working primarily in porcelain, Buzura constructs her wearable objects from modular elements that feel simultaneously natural and synthetic. Matte pastel surfaces bloom into soft geometries, while delicate gold accents suggest vitality at the edges.

Educated as an installation artist, Buzura translates her sensibility for scale and movement into intimate objects that retain a monumental presence. The influence of early twentieth-century abstraction, as well as Art Deco and Art Nouveau decorative strategies, appear through her use of repetition, stylized forms, and subtle ornamental gestures. Her process is a negotiation between modeling, cutting, casting, and combining materials like metal and leather. Porcelain is appreciated for its finality: once fired, it can not be undone.

The brooch’s design evokes feelings of mid-transformation; capturing a sense of movement and growth. Symbolically, the piece reflects Buzura’s interest in the boundary between real and abstract while embracing elements of ancient and futuristic. The result is a hybrid object that is part organism and part ornament challenging where wonder, irony, and material  coalesce.