CECILIA MILZA MIRROR
Location:
Rome, Italy
ARTIST BIO
Cecilia Milza Mirror is a photographer, sculptor and filmmaker. She likes to experiment with mixing different media and techniques. As a photographer, she collaborated with many institutions in Rome while working on sets and backstages for cinema productions and teaching in high schools. Cecilia's short movies have been screened and awarded prizes at international film festivals in Italy and Ireland. She is the co-author and set photographer of a documentary on Marcel Duchamp commissioned by GNAM
(Italian National Modern Art Gallery) to celebrate the centenary of the first Ready made by the artist (Bicycle Wheel, 1913). Cecilia was also the backstage photographer for the installation of a related exhibition, Duchamp re-made in Italy, curated by S. Cecchetto, G. Coltelli, and M. Cossu. She has a public sculpture work permanently installed in a park in Rome, part of a municipal project against gender discrimination. Solo shows include Pastificio Cerere, Rome 2022, Oasis Art Gallery, Ballydehob, Ireland, 2023. She also participated in numerious group shows in many venues in over ten years (Rome, Venice, Mondovì, Paris, Tokyo, Brno, Basel, Glasgow, West Cork, Dubai) Master in gender studies and politics (Roma Tre University)
; MA in Cinema (Rome University of Fine Arts); BA in Sculpture (Rome University of Fine Arts); Master in Art Counselling (ASPIC).
ARTIST STATEMENT
My eyes channel, my soul vibrates, and a new world unveils. My work is poETICAL and poLITICAL. I make art to celebrate life and repair shame-oppression-abuse. I believe in art as a bridge between the known and the unknown, leading us all to the core of ourselves. 'Unveil' is my motto. I'm on a quest for meaning and wonder. I'm a multidisciplinary artist - I need to express myself in different ways to feel whole. Women, Memory and Time are the main interlacing threads I use to look into my favourite theme: RELATIONSHIPS. Delving into the complexity of humankind and rejecting simplification. CONNECTIONS are my lead in exploring and understanding the world we live in, as I see everything (and everyone) interrelated in some way, and I advocate for cooperation in place of competition. My art practice is research-based and grounded in my constant interest in society and psychology. I engage in conceptual projects that use symbolic language and have multilayered meaning. My poetical and political urges are fuel to my artwork, informed by the claim that 'the personal is political'.
