"[...] By absorbing herself within the act of creation, Zoe Pop is able to communicate a transpersonal message, free of any hermetic-emblematical connotation.
The artist performs an art which refuses – through concomitance – both the temptation of realism and the one of pure abstraction, the creative effort leading towards that area in which two extremes are brought together, point where the quotidian communicable imperceptible glides onto the unutterable territory.
She tries to circumscribe this contact area from exterior, the joining of extremes being made through whispering and rending. Rending signifies sacrifice for Zoe Pop's art, and whispering symbolizes prayer, without making her work exterior-religious, and declamatory, as it seems to usually happen following the actual artistic trends.
The prayer has here the openness of a confession throughout which, with hope and invocation, is communicated – may be just partially – the secret of transcendence from the meanders of matter to the transpersonal space.
Probably because of this reason – the sculpture being perceived as a narration or confession – Zoe Pop's art creates the impression of realism, even it is continuously and firmly maintained in between the abstract limits.[...]"
(text by Cristian Velescu, in 1990 Personal Exhibition Catalog)
