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While much of the world’s cultural offering has closed its doors to combat the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19), at MIA Collection we remain committed to our mission of inspiring knowledge, creativity, ideas and being an art haven created by women.
That is why, committed to our community, we have decided to make available, through our social networks, a technological platform to help artists make their work visible and also show some of our own Collection’s valuable works of art, all this through our exclusively designed MIA Art Collection Virtual Museum
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RANA BEGUM. “Perception and reflections” (2018). Unique piece.
Born in Bangladesh in 1977, Rana Begum lives and works in London.
The work of London-based artist Rana Begum distills spatial and visual experience into ordered form. Through her refined language of Minimalist abstraction, Begum blurs the boundaries between sculpture, painting and architecture. Her visual language draws from the urban landscape as well as geometric patterns from traditional Islamic art and architecture. Light is fundamental to her process. Her works absorb and reflect varied densities of light to produce an experience for the viewer that is both temporal and sensorial.
SONIA GOMES. “Untitled” (2019). Technique: Mixed media, acrylic, watercolor, china ink, thread and fabric on canvas. Unique piece.
Sonia Gomes works with sculpture and installations made with different materials, such as clothes and furniture, and plays with potential spiritual combinations between them. Her compositions stem from a spontaneous and casual practice of deconstruction and re-assemblage of the everyday objects that cross her path. The artworks are created in a process conducted with a rare intuition, giving life and proposing a new sense to things in the world.
These amalgams carry vestiges of previous existences and each part is added to the whole in a double process. In other words, their physical nature and their historical weight. Expressionist-like organic forms emerge from the decomposition of affective objects, which invariably lead to the vision of a pulsating life, made from the combination of different experiences and memories.
Gomes designs multiple and meticulous contortions with fabric – strictly using handcraft techniques. Each seam or fold comes from vernacular procedures aimed at transcending the notion of the popular, combining the naive (as a result of an informal and self-taught background) and the erudite (in line with a rigorous gaze and gesture); the traditional and the inventive; the readymade and the authorial, in order to forge an affective, aesthetic and political redistribution of art’s complexities, raw materials and outcomes. Within the entanglement of memories and intuitive materializations, biographies find escape routes in a tactile and organic way, experimenting with new and vibrant ways of existing.
Sonia Gomes (Caetanópolis, 1948) lives and works in São Paulo. In 2018 the artist had her first major monographic institutional exhibitions in Brazil, at MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo and at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Niterói. In addition, her work has been included in institutional group exhibitions such as the 56ª Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (2015); Entangled, Turner Contemporary, Margate, United Kingdom (2017); Revival, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, USA (2017); Art & Textiles – Fabric as Material and Concept in Modern Art, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (2013); Out of Fashion. Textile in International Contemporary Art, Kunsten – Museum of Modern Art Aalborg, Denmark (2013).
