This archive is my way of paying a personal debt to Moldova. It extends my research on Moldovan artists of the 20th century — painters, sculptors, and visionaries born in Chișinău, Bălți, and Orhei, who became part of the global avant‑garde. Rather than root themselves in a single soil, they lived as radicants: like ivy, growing new roots wherever life and art took them.
A “radicant” is a plant that grows new roots as it moves — like ivy. Moldovan artists of the 20th century lived and worked in this way. They left Bessarabian shtetls and small towns, then rewrote the map of modern art in Paris, Switzerland, Brazil, and the United States. This archive follows their trajectories as homo viator — traveling humans whose identities remained in motion.
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