‘What a Wonderful World…’ MIA Art Collection exhibition 2023 Abu Dhabi

MIA Art Collection inside the XIII Ibero-American Business Meeting, Andorra

Aya Sawada Interview

Aya Sawada:
Guided virtual visit

MIA Asia Curator Alejandra Rodríguez Cunchillos and the MIA Anywhere team had a conversation about the new virtual exhibition inside the MIA Anywhere Virtual Museum.

Sense of Women:
Fatima Al Kindi

MIA Asia Curator Alejandra Rodríguez Cunchillos explained the work of UAE artist Fatima Al Kindi inside the ME Hotel Dubai MIA exhibition.

Sense of Women:
Aisha Al Ahmadi

Our MIA Asia Curator, Alejandra Rodríguez Cunchillos talked about the work and the installation of Aisha Al Ahmadi that you can see in our “Sense of Women” Art Exhibition at the ME Dubai Hotel.

Sense of Women:
Akiko Nakayama

MIA Asia Curator Alejandra Rodríguez Cunchillos explained the work of this Japanese artist.

Sense of Women
MIA Art Exhibition

MIA Art Collection video presentation that shows our first exhibition in the UAE

The Art Circle Dubai Conversation

Alejandra Castro Rioseco talked with The Art Circle Dubai about her art collection and the work in MIA

‘Levitating in the Salon’ Conversation

MIA’s Anita Shishani talked with these artists from the UAE about female art and creation

‘Mehkari’ artists conversation

Meeting our ‘Mehkari’ Chechen artists with Alejandra Castro Rioseco, founder of the MIA Art Collection and Anita Shishani, Noxchisurt director and curator.

Alejandra Castro Rioseco

In conversation with Mariana Tocornal from Gallery Weekend Santiago 2020 edition. (Interview in Spanish).

Mari Ito

Exclusive video from the Tokyo Government on her COVID19 artistic initiatives

Lucia Maman

Exclusive interview for MIA Art Collection

VERÓNICA RUTH FRÍAS

“Armadas hasta en los dientes” (2019)
Video performance. 3:26 min.

SILVANA PESTANA EXPLANATION

The Peruvian artist Silvana Pestana explaining her artwork.
(Translation: Hello, I am Silvana Pestana, from Peru. The project I present to you is an evolution of what I have been working on in recent years. My work is related to the destruction that illegal mining has been doing in the Peruvian Amazon territory. Specifically, in the ‘Madre de Dios’ area, where the mercury used to separate the gold from the sand annihilates everything around it. Flora and fauna vanishes, giving way to a mud desert, where In addition, mafias traffic little girls, to sexually enslave them in the mining camps. Google Earth images of this devastated territory serve as a mold to create these paintings, which are highly sculptural, like a footprint of nature that already does not exist, like a fossil. I have developed my own technique, which was the result of a lot of experimentation. I take the canvas as a starting point, which is covered by layers and layers of paint, giving very pronounced textures. This second thicker skin is achieved through an amalgam of acrylics and liquid metals, which I mold on the canvas to give textures of scales, trunks, leaves, flowers of the devastated area. The final product is gigantic canvases covered in paint, like thick skins that intermingle to give abstract landscapes)

NASIM HANTEHZADEH

“Enforcement” (2014)
Digital video. 4:07 min.
Description: Process Based Performance by Nasim Hantehzadeh Location: Mana Contemporary, Chicago IL

ELVIRA SMEKE

“Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, Nobody” (2017)
Digital video. 0:07 min
Description: From 4 indefinite pronouns: ‘everybody, somebody, anybody, nobody’, we see the importance of the word. These are ambiguous, that is, the name and gender of the people are not known included in these words and is reduced from all, or everyone, even nobody. It is the disappearance of difference gender, but with an emphasis on the word ‘body’, since, in general, it is the body, specifically, the genitals that they call us as woman or man. Instead of using the typewriter, it is made in computer, since the gender problem is very current.

ELVIRA SMEKE

“Azotes” (2016)
Video performance. 8:00 min
Description: This performance was carried out in the Estado de México, the state with the highest number of disappearances of women and femicides in Mexico. Using ‘Zote’ bars of soap, Elvira wrote each one the letter ‘A’ and an ‘S’ to finally say ‘Azotes” (whip), and with them she built a wall.