Ekaterina Galera is a visual artist based in Toulouse, France. With a background in languages and design, her practice approaches painting as a form of visual writing — where silence carries weight and gestures speak as clearly as words. Meaning emerges between the lines — carried by layers of paint rather than text.

Her work develops through slow material processes of layering, sanding back, and rebuilding. She works primarily with natural pigments, ground charcoal, and rice paper on wood panel. The surface is built, worn down, and rebuilt, allowing earlier decisions to remain visible.

Rather than representation, her paintings register traces of passage — surfaces shaped by time, pressure, repetition, and accumulation.