In the "Refuge" Series, the visual artist, Mirella Musri, taks about the places where we can feel safe and find our own space for delight.From her emotional and sensitive point of view, Musri remembers us that those places could be fisical, emotional or spiritual.
At the same time the Refuge series, was nourished by other people opinions at the social networks, as the artist asked some people the question: Wich is your refuge?. The answers contributed in her own inspiration.This series shows that in some ocasions, the protection we longed for, can be found in the interior worldwhen the person allows the fruition in music, literature, meditation, nature, human relationships, or in some other spaces, that changes among personal taste.
Through woodcut prints, paintings and ceramic installations, the hybrid innocents characters, that could came from a fable, explore the different way to find the protection from external threats.
At the same time that the violinist penetrates its own melody, the passionate reader expand horizons with his object and the calm nature becomes the perfect place for the souls stunned by the big cities. As a visual puzzle, Musri's Refuges, question current problems, with the sensitivity of her large career as an illustrator. The need of protection against the external wold dangers, is imperative in the case of the refugees.
An alert for empathy and solidarity against the advances of the belic terrorism.
Lic. María Gabriela Figueroa
An exhibition by Mirella Musri
Influential personalities that are "followed", listened and imitatied by massive groups, and followers that need those influences.Followers and followed, a circle of feedback with unusual consequenses.Precisely this universe is questioned by the artist Mirella Musri at her exhibition "Followers".And she uses several resources that she manages with knowledge, as illustration, paintings and ceramics. Followers and followed are represented in this space by characters that can came from fables or fairy tales.They move in nature spaces, as those misterious forest, that are frequent in Musri's works.They live in atmospheres with undefined temporality and they pretend, from an apparenty innocent language, make a reflection about social and crowd behaviour, power and submission relationships.
