GALLERY
Series: Interaction
In this series, the artist talks about human relationships, the different paths we take in our lives, the diversity of cultures, ethnicities, religions,new places and languages that we can learn and that help us grow as human beings. Having lived in different cities around the world teaches us not to be afraid of the unknown, to be malleable, to adapt to changes, because we are all different but we must manage to live together in peace.
Human interaction is not just an exchange of stimuli and responses, but a dynamic process where each action influences the next. This continuous cycle not only reflects our social nature, but also shapes our identity.
The stimuli we receive generate immediate responses, but also leave traces in our memory, shaping our personality and our way of relating to the world. Thus, interaction becomes the stage where who we are is built.
As shape and color come together, their interactions develop as playful conversations, where the elements vibrate with each other and settle into a visual harmony. Each composition achieves a balance accentuated by the range of scale and distribution, creating a constant but synchronized flow.
By breaking down the parts to form a whole, the artist's work reveals how the elements communicate through a dynamic and active visual language.
The Ships. Details.
Acrylic on canvas. Mixed media. 110 cm x 95 cm.
Private collection, Korea.
SERIES: SCHOOLWORK
In this series, the artist draws inspiration from concepts such as repetition, cataloging, and methods of study, which she describes as tasks or labor. Before painting, Chiera experimented with compositions using cut paper and transparency projections, revealing positive and negative gestures. These initial exercises in spatial exploration guide the direction of the work, establishing a foundation for visual engagement. As form and color come together, their interactions unfold as playful conversations, where elements vibrate against one another and settle into visual harmony. Each composition achieves a balance accentuated by the range of scale and distribution, creating a flow that is constant yet synchronized.
SERIES: Between Lines That Never Cross.
This series emerges from a deep and sometimes uncomfortable place: the complex and broken bond with my brother. We haven't spoken in years, and the silence between us has become a constant and heavy presence, invisible and undeniable. Through these paintings, I attempt to give shape and color to a relationship marked by distance, back-and-forth dynamics, and unresolved spaces.
I work with darker backgrounds than usual because this story carries an emotional charge I cannot ignore. Against these shadows, colorful geometric shapes appear, representing moments, memories, and fragments of connection. Some figures seem to touch, others repel each other or repeat themselves with stubborn insistence. Nothing is completely harmonious, but everything is in tension.
These compositions speak of the bonds that once existed, of the hope that still lives in color, and of the pain that remains silent. They are attempts to reconstruct, through the abstract language of form and space, a sense of meaning where there is only absence.
Each painting is a letter I never sent, a word I never said.
SERIES: ASSEMBLY
In this series Chiera works with displaced associations of shapes and colours, drawn from graphic design, fashion, history and nature itself, using a variety of methods and materials, from acrylic paint, spray paint, stencils, collage, assemblage and needlework. The paintings themselves have shifting hierarchies of similar concerns: material exploration, abstract identity, formal space and narrative expression. They openly blur the boundary between high art and applied art, not only in principle but in practice, lending themselves to diverse forms of surface design.
24 di Dicembre 2024.
Diptych. Acrylic on unprimed natural canvas. Mixed media. 110 cm x 135 cm.Private collection, United States. Photo provided by the owner.
SERIES: ANCESTRAL FRAGMENTS
With a collage-like aesthetic, her vibrant paintings feature a system of interconnected shapes, where human traits emerge and are contained within boxes, grids, and organized lines. Mythological beings and forgotten civilizations appear recurrently, adding a sense of mystery and symbolism.
I paint bodies that dream, touch, and merge in dreamlike and carnal scenes, where the human and the animal coexist in symbolic, sensual, and chaotic landscapes. My practice focuses on large-scale figurative painting, primarily in acrylic on canvas, using a vibrant and saturated palette inspired by German Expressionism, Latin American muralism, Gauguin, and Matisse. Technically, I emphasize the expressive use of flat color, strong contours, and the balance between chaos and visual harmony. I work with free gestures and visual memory, painting without preliminary sketches, composing as I go, allowing forms to build, overlap, and contradict each other.
My works unfold as open narratives: fragmented stories that intertwine personal experiences, cultural references, and mythological or fetishistic elements. The figures I paint—often grotesque, exaggerated, or caricature-like—challenge traditional standards of beauty and anatomy, generating tensions between the sacred and the profane, the sensual and the violent, the tragic and the absurd. I paint as someone who simultaneously remembers and forgets.
Each image is a metaphor for the human condition, a visual diary where eroticism, tenderness, death, sacred art, and surrealism converge. My paintings don't seek to provide answers; they pose questions, provoke contradictions, and confront the viewer with their own gaze. Color, the body, and emotion are the primary vehicles of this experience. I paint to narrate, but also to allow the viewer to complete the story from their own perception.
Studio Miriam Chiera
studio.miriam.chiera@gmail.com
Via Gherardi 16-18. Senigallia. Italy.
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