She heard a Whisper (2025) Sculpture by Judit Csotsits

My artistic practice is rooted in transformation and the dissolution of boundaries between life forms, echoing Surrealism’s fascination with metamorphosis and the unconscious. Water—its fluidity, force, and mutability—guides both my conceptual framework and material process. Like the gestural abstraction of Action Painting, I invite the organic behavior of materials to shape the work, allowing spontaneity and flow to co-create form. My sculptures resist fixed states, instead evolving with a biomorphic fluidity that blurs the lines between plant, animal, and human—between liquid and solid.

This instinct for hybridization has deep ancestral echoes. My grandmother was born in Transylvania, and from a young age I was steeped in the region’s myths, especially the lore surrounding Dracula. The vampire—neither fully alive nor dead, both feared and desired—embodies the liminal spaces that captivate my work. The mythologies passed down to me weren’t just stories, but psychological landscapes where identity, desire, and the unknown coexisted.

As a child, I was also enchanted by Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Mermaid—a tale of transformation, sacrifice, and selfhood that mirrored the hybrid, feminine figures I imagined from Eastern European folklore. The mermaid’s dissolution into sea-foam resonated as a symbol of choosing one’s path at great personal cost, and affirmed my belief in the power of resisting containment.

I find kinship with the Symbolists’ inner mythologies and the psychological abstraction of mid-century modernism. My practice bridges figurative and abstract modes, weaving together science, spirituality, and aesthetics in a manner reminiscent of Hilma af Klint’s visionary abstraction. Esoteric philosophies, especially Kundalini yoga, inform my exploration of altered states of consciousness and energetic transformation.

Visually, my work draws from the ornate precision of Ernst Haeckel’s biological illustrations and the dreamlike folklore of my Eastern European roots. My figurative watercolors use layered translucence to evoke spectral presences, while my sculptural works embrace the ornamental exuberance of the Baroque and Art Nouveau—styles historically feminized and dismissed—reclaiming them as vessels of power and transformation. Across media, hybridity remains my central aesthetic and philosophical inquiry: a space where boundaries dissolve, identities intermingle, and material states shift—unsettling the lines between self and other, myth and biology, flesh and spirit.

• Nationality: UNITED STATES
• Date of birth : 1972
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Contemporary American Artists