DANI MIRET

STATEMENT

I make abstract paintings, working mainly in big formats, using oil, acrylic, and adhesive tape.

During the creative process, I try to create a temporal space where one is guided by the inertia of the gesture in an irregular yet steady way. Body and mind find themselves in conflicting states of abstraction and control and as a result gaze unconsciously at primal ideas and thoughts. In my paintings I intend to create an organized chaos, therefor I develop a planned and controlled system which, like in real life, can't avoid the emerging of small unexpected incidents. This interaction with the medium and its rhythm allows me to fall into a state of meditation.

My work is a personal reflection on the construction of individual identity within a postmodern framework and the personal motivations that build these socially suggested mechanisms of identity. Given that our current systems of power propose social structures wherein everyone must give continuity and coherence to their thought and action, it feels necessary to find a method to make sense of the internal conflict between one’s own will and what society expects of one’s self intending to relativize what is considered to be normal or abnormal within both social and personal points of view. Each individual plot tries to fit itself in and become a part and beneficiary of this collective web.