On Love

April 10 - May 30, 2026

Opening Reception:

April 10, 5:00-7:00PM Free

In On Love, Daniela Groza Pop and Ioana Groza Pop invite the viewer into their life together, in order to have a conversation about the need for trust and care. This need exists for the artists in direct relationship to the country they live in, Romania – a country that hasn’t yet recognized queer citizens as full citizens. The artists consider themselves queer visual activists who assume the responsibility of depicting joy and love by way of self-portraiture, showing us queer lives that are varied and beautiful, in addition to the uphill battle for recognition.

The frankly intimate images the artists make of their relationship ask us to think about what queer representation and self-representation has looked like over the last century in photography and cinema. Throughout the series, which was made over several years, Daniela and Ioana Groza Pop photograph each other working, eating, sleeping and playing. Handing the camera back and forth, the artists reject the idea of ‘subjects’ and demand viewers to look at them as they look at each other – with love. Their hope is that On Love makes clear that what is behind the camera and what is in front of it matter equally. Every image in the series was made with enthusiasm and love – for the craft and for each other, without exception.

Daniela Groza Pop, (*1983 in Constanța, RO), lives and works in Romania and the U.S. and studied art and Italian philosophy at UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, and documentary photography at Florence University of the Arts, Florence, IT. Selected exhibitions include: Epicentru Gallery, Constanța, RO; Lost and Found, LA Center for Photography, Los Angeles, CA; Women With A Camera, Casa Presei Libere, Bucharest, Romania, Human All Too Human, NYU Kimmel Galleries, NY, NY, That Used To Be Us, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO and Transylvania Photography Festival, Transylvania, RO. Groza Pop's work has been reviewed in profiled in CUTRA, The Daring, Scena9, INFLUX and Elle Magazine Romania. 

Ioana Groza Pop (b. 1994, Tîrgu Mureș), lives and works in Cluj, Romania. She received her MFA in Documentary Filmmaking from Babes-Bolyai University. Groza Pop's cinematography and editing has appeared in Gimi Is Not in the Film and To Be (e) or Not to Be. Her photography has been exhibited at WE ARE HERE, ArtHub, Bucharest, RO, Queer Bodies, Transylvania Queer Art, Cluj-Napoca, RO and Casa Presei Libere, Bucharest, RO. Groza Pop's work has been profiled in Photography INFLUX and Photo Vogue.