Speaking with Christophe Cherix, The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Chief Curator of Prints and Illustrated Books, Geta Brătescu shares her understanding of drawing and speaks of the importance of personal space for her creative practice, offering an insight into her technique. She discusses her fascination with Charlie Chaplin, which led to the creation of her best-known film, Atelierul (The Studio, 1978), and describes her attraction to the figure of Medea, which is reflected in a series of lithographs and in extraordinary sewing-machine drawings she created in the 1980s.
The interview was conducted in Ms. Brătescu’s home studio in Bucharest in May 2012, during the C-MAP Fluxus group research trip to Romania.
