BIO
MIRTA was born in Montevideo, Uruguay (1952), lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A psychoanalyst with training and clinical practice since 1973, he began his studies in arts in 1990 with watercolor, moving on to drawing and painting at Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage, where he currently studies.
Her research is guided by his personal questions and studies related to human nature, particularly the segregations between peoples and individuals that increasingly appear in our contemporary.
In 2020, during the pandemic, his works were projected on the gables of buildings in the context of the HQ Festival, in Rio de Janeiro and Fortaleza. In 2021, he participated in Art and Psychoanalysis Seminars, marking his career as a psychoanalyst and artist at the Brazilian School of Psychoanalysis-Rio Section. In 2022, she participated in the collective exhibition QUARTETA – women who paint, at Estúdio Ipê – Rio de Janeiro and, the following year, in 2023, she held her first solo exhibition, a.m.o.r, at the Cervantes Institute in Rio de Janeiro, with the support of the Uruguayan Consulate in Rio de Janeiro. In 2024 she participates in the collective Insurgent Affections, at the Correios Cultural Center in Rio de Janeiro and in the Bela Biennial 2023 Art, Life and Sustainability at the Gloria Maria gallery – Parque das Ruinas – Rio de Janeiro. In March 2024, he is part of the collective exhibition, Uruguay, Cultura y Arte, at the Latin America Memorial – São Paulo. In April and May 2024, he also participates in the AVA Art. Festival in Varkaus – Finland and Osaka – Japan.
STATEMENT
My work in the visual arts is related to a professional and mainly personal path in psychoanalysis. A childhood of violence and abuse led me to questions about individual and social differences, and the injustices and segregations that result from them. In both fields I research fantasies, inventions and unique solutions that allow us to endure the anguish of existing.
My painting is produced as a process of experimentation, without a previous project. Transiting through figurations, abstractions, lines, shapes and masses, my free pictorial experiments are driven by childlike marks and affective memories that find an echo in the present.
Handicrafts such as sewing, knitting, crochet appeared from the earliest childhood, as a fabric possible to sustain and elaborate their anguish in the face of life and guided my relationship with the body, the adornments, contours and props that allowed me to constitute an identity and sustain my uniqueness. My reflections on the different ways of loving, from carnal love to unconditional human love, appear in the movement of the bodies and landscapes represented, as well as the certain chaos present in my brushstrokes leads to the very movement of life and the relationships we form to give meaning to existence. From a stroke, a drawing, a sketch I create my scenes. The need to superimpose layers of paint and putty is imperative, as well as the use of colors as an expression of affections. Different techniques, materials and textures combine bringing marks of a gesture that I have built throughout my history.
The interest in the human figure is recurrent: profiles, contours, body parts, headless bodies and disembodied heads express the singularity of psychic life, thoughts and human relationships. A certain degree of indeterminacy, disorder and strangeness is always present in my work, conveying the chaotic dimension of human life, its meaninglessness and, consequently, the infinite possibilities of creation and invention.