Ekaterina Galera (b. 1977) is a visual artist based in Toulouse, France.

Trained in linguistics, she approaches painting as a form of constructed language that operates through material rather than text.

Working primarily with charcoal, natural pigments, paper and wood panels, she develops each work through layering, pressure, abrasion and reduction. Material is applied, pressed into the surface, and worked back repeatedly, leaving traces shaped by persistence rather than intention.

Her recent works explore residue as both material trace and spatial condition. Dark forms appear as deposits rather than gestures - accumulations of matter held in tension between presence and disappearance, neither fully integrated nor entirely separate.

Through a process of attention and restraint, surfaces become sites of compression, erosion and emergence.
The image is not imposed but discovered from within the material itself.