Irina Marinescu (b. 1981, Romania) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work bridges textile art, performance, and personal narrative. After over fifteen years in fashion, she transitioned to tapestry, merging meticulous craftsmanship with deep introspection.
Marinescu’s tapestries are immersive, tactile meditations combining drawing, hand embroidery, and bas-relief. Rooted in introspection, her work explores personal memory and trauma as both subject and form, functioning as therapeutic rituals that transform painful experiences into resilience. Her textiles become dynamic sites where the personal often expands into the archetypal.
Embroidery is for her a shamanic, repetitive labor where each stitch marks thought and feeling, turning fabric into a living archive of experience. For Marinescu, making is not merely expressive, but cathartic; her tapestries operate as both private relics and shared psychic landscapes.
In the LOBA series, she channels archetypal feminine energies—she-wolf, healer, shapeshifter—connecting personal and collective memory through cyclical rituals that evoke nature, lunar rhythms, and ancestral power. Marinescu’s practice here is both a reclamation and a call to action: to awaken and mobilize the feminine force that sustains life, creativity, and transformation across time and space.