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The exhibition is the culmination of a three-month residency period in which the artist produced a prolific collection of layered abstractions with sparing but powerful figurative elements.

Mirela creates fast, expressive oil paintings that evoke the lavish floral qualities of Lucia Laguna and the sensual viscous aesthetic of Cecily Brown. As a departure point, the artist uses the canvas to write and scribble with graphite or charcoal. The spontaneous pouring of words and sentences, gestures and emotions, arrows and lines onto the support has become her way of “emptying the mind” before …