Although Fina Miralles represented Spain at the Venice Biennale in 1978, the artist was quickly forgotten when she became interested in the New Age in the 80's.
A fate that unfortunately has affected several pioneering, female artists.
But now that Miralles has been rediscovered, one truly understands what a pioneer she is.
Even though her works are 40 years old, they feel completely contemporary.
No mossy painting - but instead highly topical, photo-based concept art and installations.
Miralles distanced himself early on from the academic painting that was taught in the art schools.
So instead of just depicting nature, she builds her own landscapes from canvas and tension frames.
Such as the poetic series Double Horizons.
Miralles often questions
the hierarchical relationship between nature and culture.
Since women have always been connected to the subordinate nature while men have created the high culture, the artist likes to stage himself as a part of nature.
Firmly anchored in the dung, that is.
In 1974, Miralles presents a kind of zoo installation that deals with the situation of women in the authoritarian, dictatorship in the 70s.
Consequently, the artist is caged here;
reduced to a passive object to consider.
Not so fun, right?
But as early as 1976, Miralles manufactures a pair of special resistance shoes where the soles have been transformed into name stamps.
Then she pops around town - as an active subject - to mark her artistic territory.
When you live
in a dictatorship with censorship and there is nowhere to exhibit, everyday life becomes a free zone.
In the work Relationships, Miralles thus elevates his own everyday life to art.
So thanks to this brilliant exhibition, you now know what to do if the Russian comes and takes over.
The exhibition runs from 19 February to 1 May 2022.