Artists
Although his work is based on figurative art, Miki Leal (1974, Seville, Spain) avoids traditional environments and moves in a space where memory, visual culture and personal experience intertwine. The artist does not intend to tell closed stories, but to activate a free association network in which genres such as jazz, cinema or literature merge with personal memories and elements of the collective imaginary. His work serves as a tool for thinking, as a way of looking at the world from a sensitive approach rather than representing it. Leal takes classical genres - portraits, landscapes and still lifes, among others - and transforms them using a fragmentary and open logic, in which the decorative, the abstract and the narrative coexist without hierarchies. The resulting images do not explain, but invite to be read using one’s intuition and memory. In his work, there is no single truth, but multiple layers of meaning that viewers can explore in their own way.
