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Artwork details
- Medium : Acrylic, Ink on Paper
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Framing :
Other rigid frame
under glass
Framed - Dimensions : 19.5x15.4in
About this artwork
‘Looking Back’: This artwork title is inspired by the Adinkra symbol Sankofa, which, in Akan philosophy, reminds us that we must look to our past in order to move forward, and that what was left behind is worth returning for.
Currently reserved for an exhibition in Berlin.
Based on a photograph I took in my artist in residency in Ghana. The illustration is composed of multiple Adinkra symbols: visual signs rooted in Ashanti culture, each carrying… its own proverb, message, and meaning. Together, these symbols fill and enrich the figure, infusing it with layers of cultural meaning.
This work was developed during my studies of Adinkra symbolism, an interest that began while I lived in a rural village in the heart of the Ashanti region of Ghana, in 2013.
Currently reserved for an exhibition in Berlin.
Based on a photograph I took in my artist in residency in Ghana. The illustration is composed of multiple Adinkra symbols: visual signs rooted in Ashanti culture, each carrying… its own proverb, message, and meaning. Together, these symbols fill and enrich the figure, infusing it with layers of cultural meaning.
This work was developed during my studies of Adinkra symbolism, an interest that began while I lived in a rural village in the heart of the Ashanti region of Ghana, in 2013.
Mirela Fioresy
Brazil
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
- Works on commission
As an artist, I am interested in the visible and invisible forces that shape individual and collective experience, particularly how environments, social systems, and belief structures influence perception, behavior, and forms of belonging. My work examines how these forces operate through what is shown and what remains hidden, and how divisions are constructed through fear, prejudice, and exclusion.
I approach my practice as an inquiry into tension: between visibility and concealment, separation and interconnectedness, surface and depth, detail and totality. Working across painting and mixed media, I experiment with the collision and combination of techniques and materials. Through processes of layering, interruption, and material testing, I explore transformation and shifts across media as ways of questioning how meaning is formed and destabilized.
I approach my practice as an inquiry into tension: between visibility and concealment, separation and interconnectedness, surface and depth, detail and totality. Working across painting and mixed media, I experiment with the collision and combination of techniques and materials. Through processes of layering, interruption, and material testing, I explore transformation and shifts across media as ways of questioning how meaning is formed and destabilized.