Daniela Chirion was born in Bucharest in 1978. After a foundation course at the Liceul de Arte Plastice ‘Nicolae Tonitza’ (Nicolae Tonitza High School of Fine Arts), she graduated from the Universitatea Națională de Arte București in 2002 and obtained her Masters in Visual Arts from the same institution in 2006.
Through various contemporary mediums, Chirion investigates humanity’s quiet thoughts. Be it painting, drawing, photography or video art, her art exudes ephemeral human intimacy. Each series has a distinctive colour palette, the tones and hues of which underline the depicted theme. In her White Shades series, for example, the artist varies notes of grey to convey the texture of bed and pillow sheets, capturing their latent heat, as if someone had just left the scene, their absence perceptible.
Poetry, present indirectly in all of Chirion’s work, is another avenue of expression for the artist. In her poems, she conveys the restless movement of her inner world, questions the human condition as a whole, and more generally seeks meaning through the mundane, the normal, the every day – a subject which has taken precedence in her corpus since 2008.
Chirion’s works of art are displayed at various cultural and political institutions around the world.
She currently lives and works between Belgium and Romania.
