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Artwork details
- Medium : Acrylic, Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on supported wooden frame. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 31.5x19.7in
About this artwork
This painting originates from my photographic project Ghana Portraits, created during my artist residency in Abetenim, Ghana, in 2013. During the residency, I spent one month developing the photographic project and leading art workshops for local school children of various ages.
Of all the curated photographs, one image always stayed with me. It captures a mother collecting water with her baby on her back, while her other child, a small girl, carried… a smaller bucket on her head just out of frame. From this photograph, I felt a strong desire to paint this particular scene. This became a single painting, a single moment I wanted to revisit, translating it into a different medium. For this work, I used oil paint for most of the surface, with finer details in liquid acrylic.
Of all the curated photographs, one image always stayed with me. It captures a mother collecting water with her baby on her back, while her other child, a small girl, carried… a smaller bucket on her head just out of frame. From this photograph, I felt a strong desire to paint this particular scene. This became a single painting, a single moment I wanted to revisit, translating it into a different medium. For this work, I used oil paint for most of the surface, with finer details in liquid acrylic.
Mirela Fioresy
Brazil
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- Works on commission
Currently on Germany for Exhibitions and an AIR. Artworks will be available online again from Aug-Sep.
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.
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.