Katia Miranda, a Salvadoran artist living in Guatemala, has spent many years researching the physical, scientific, psychosocial, ecological, philosophical, and aesthetic dimensions of plastic and its derivatives. The result is pictorial, three-dimensional or installation works that delve into the porous borders between synthetic materials, our bodies and sensations, and other beings and elements of nature. In other words, for the conception of his pieces, the qualities of the plastic are just as important as the ways in which this material affects the Earth and all its creatures.

On the other hand, she no longer only uses photographs as investigative support to create his oil paintings, but also recognizes them as works of art with their own merit. After a rigorous preparation, which, however, opens randomly and to surprise, the paintings and photographs in “Desierto” –his new series, exhibited here– generate hybrid and formless realities. They evoke all the senses. The landscape and time itself seem to stretch out, blur and flow there, or crowd, compress and refract there. Disturbing and captivating at the same time, these spaces do not focus on the ego. Not even in human perception. Paradox: for that reason they seduce.

Adrienne Samos