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GALLERY

The Game of Souls
Circus of Feelings

Series: The Game of Souls

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.

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Serie: Circus of Feelings explores the inner spectacle of human emotions. Each painting becomes a stage where bodies perform their passions, fears, and desires under the bright light of illusion. Through vibrant colors, geometric tensions, and symbols borrowed from the world of the circus —makeup, masks, exaggerated gestures— the series unveils the irony of human nature: we laugh while bleeding, love while pretending, shine while falling. It is a poetic and ironic vision of existence, where beauty and absurdity coexist in fragile balance. The viewer is invited to witness an emotional theater —a tragicomedy of the soul.

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, Goya and Gauguin. 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.

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Studio Miriam Chiera

studio.miriam.chiera@gmail.com

Via Gherardi 16-18. Senigallia. Italy.

+39-351-730-1914

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