Miren Doiz. Arcadia

November 7th - February 15th, 2025

EL APARTAMENTO

Calle de la Puebla, 4, local bajo derecha. Madrid. Spain

In recent years, Miren Doiz has been dealing with the consequences of the pandemic in her artistic production. A feeling of guilt and environmental anxiety runs through and structures her work, which leads her to reflect on aesthetic creation and the ecological sensitivity of our times. Against this background, the artist proposes a dialogue between the sculptural and the pictorial and presents us with a series of assemblages that bear witness to the danger of nature's collapse as a result of the unmeasured impact of human activity.

The artist structures Arcadia, an exhibition of her recent work at the gallery El Apartamento, around the installation entitled Un paisaje personal (y culpable) / (A personal (and guilty) landscape. With it, she gives continuity to a project from the year 2022 that already revealed her emotional unease about the devastation of nature. Since then, all the useless or disused objects lying around in his studio have been classified and used as working material to conceive his sculptures. Thus, tools, technological devices, household goods, ornaments, gifts, catalogues... all of them perished, become the raw material from which to create and with which to denounce the evils of our times.

Nature and waste converge, then, in the project room of El Apartamento. Doiz's sculptures that populate the gallery, built from recycled materials and discarded objects, outline an autumnal, post-natural forest; that is to say, fabricated in the manner of a second nature that the artist invites us to penetrate and understand.

Arcadia presents us with an emotional landscape with the aim of challenging the viewer both to witness how nature is degraded by human action and to become involved in the construction of a future that, if not idyllic in the manner of an arcadia, is at least habitable.

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