Galina Poloz is a contemporary artist based in Moldova, working exclusively in watercolour. Her practice explores how places continue to exist after their physical presence begins to disappear.

She graduated with distinction from both the Chisinau Art College and the Estonian State Art Institute in Tallinn.

Working with watercolour on cotton paper, she allows water, pigment and untouched paper to become active elements of the image. Rather than depicting specific locations, her paintings create spaces suspended between observation and memory, where architecture gradually gives way to atmosphere, light and reflection.

My work explores how physical space is transformed into atmosphere, memory and emotional experience.

I am interested not in buildings as physical structures, but in the way places continue to exist through memory. Walls, stairways, windows and streets gradually lose their material certainty and become light, air, reflection and silence. Watercolour is not simply my medium; it is an essential part of this process. Its fluidity allows form to emerge, dissolve and remain unfinished, leaving space for memory and perception.

Rather than depicting specific locations, I create spaces that exist between observation and recollection. They are rooted in real architecture and landscapes, yet freed from geographical identity. The absence of people shifts attention to the space itself and to the traces of time it holds.