Andra Clițan - ROMANIA

“Andra Clițan works at the intersection of contemporary fashion and traditional textile craft through ‘MA RA MI’, creating limited-edition garments and installations rooted in material research and collaboration with artisans. Her work explores wool as material, memory, and process, developed through long-term fieldwork with artisans and communities, as well as academia, across Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Through garments and art installations, Andra traces the journeys of materials and the knowledge embedded in them. In projects such as Drumul lânii (The Road of Wool), she follows wool from shepherd to finished piece, foregrounding relationships between landscape, labour, and making. Her recent installation Root Rot, presented at Quoz Arts Fest (Dubai, January 2025), explored cycles of decay and renewal through fragmented wool forms, bringing this research into dialogue with a broader audience.

Her installations and projects navigate the tension between preservation and contemporary relevance, working directly with makers to keep ancestral knowledge active while translating regional craft languages into shared, international conversations around material consciousness and community. She holds a PhD from the University of Art and Design Cluj-Napoca, with research focused on festive costumes from northern Romania, and continues this investigation through MA RA MI’s experimental collections, installations, and collaborative projects.”

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