Ana Lupas was born in 1940 in Cluj, Romania. She first showed her work in 1965, when her striking textiles were part of the town’s National Exhibition for Decorative Arts. She was interested in the relationship between an object and an item of clothing. In 1969, Lupas created a series titled “Identity Shirt,” which she described as “pieces of cloth overwritten like palimpsests with the sewing machine, with pens, with ink, and even with blood.” Over the years, Lupas has expanded into installations and photography, and has exhibited across the globe, all under four decades of communist rule. Lupas is now 84, and this is her first large-scale retrospective. —Elena Clavarino