Mitra's Stair Nº12 Print

Lives and works in Barcelona The work focuses on the strength of human vulnerability. From a woman's perspective -the fears, the myths, the steriotypes and the challenges- to transform these into short stories about change. She invites you a take a fleeting into this her imaginary world. Since 2.001 she has had varius solo and group exhibitions in Spain and Great Britain. She has also collaborated in different, creative projects: the making of an innovative video for a piano concert, various art instalations in public spaces, museums and art centres. One of her works has been acquired by Contemporary Art Museum in the University of Alicante, Spain, for their permanent collection. Statement My work focuses on the strength of human vulnerability from the perspective of the female archetype – life, fears, frailties, myths, stereotypes and struggles- and transform them into short stories of evolution. An imaginary world drawn from daily life and observation, diaries grounded in existential impressions like a box full of vibrations. The materials are as fragile as sloughed skin. The skin is the boundary between the innermost self – the intimate world – and the external – the public persona. Drawings, monotypes, letters and stitching are the tracks and traces of identity, memory and trauma. Shared thoughts that belong to no-one. Reds are the protagonists, purifiers and transformers. Whites are void yet solid at the same time. Everything is on the point of breaking….. when it breaks, it leaves an open wound. Sewn up, it heals. The scars of living. I use make-up to hide and protect the intimate or to seduce. I catch, catalogue and manipulate the exterior world with images – from newspapers, magazines, cinema, myths, and fables – to create new relationships of hope. My ethical and artistic aim is to share these areas of empathy. To create narrative and poetic pulses between these spaces of osmosis, which create bonds of affinity and healing between the self and others.