Artist statement

I would like to question our approach to artistic expression in the age of disposability, our capacity to perceive and interpret the world and the self, and our subsequent consciousness and freedom. I dream about and work for a way of creation, interpretation, and reception of art within an environment free of market domination, academic technocracy, and administrative deception.

As an artist, I am interested in the perceptive approach to creating situations and the literalness of perception while inhabiting them, their here and now. I feel that today's reality is a place where availability and immediacy have been absolutized. In such a reality, the simple fact of sitting in there and contemplating becomes extremely relevant.

In my artistis doings, I question the goal- and future-orientation in which we are embedded and which have led us to a crisis of presence. My practice is approached as a source of continuous reflection rather than finalized products, a space to dwell that has found its latest creative motor in those expired objects and abandoned places that remain despite oblivion.

Time passes. Stuff withers. Things become nothing but their memory. And memories can only live through someone.

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Hi!

My name is Pilar Miralles and I was born in Almería (Spain) in 1997. I'm a sound artist and researcher currently living in Helsinki (Finland). My artistic activity focuses on situated practices that seek to restore a deep awareness of our fast and disposable reality and a sense of belonging to it, especially through the retrieval and resignification of memory. I'm currently expanding my practice to video filming, field recording, and site writing, finding in installation art a solution for the processual and open-ended nature of my work.

I hold a Master's degree in Electroacoustic Composition from "Centro Superior Katarina Gurska" of Madrid, and a Master of Music in Composition from the Sibelius Academy of Uniarts Helsinki. My current doctoral artistic research is being conducted at the same institution. I have recently participated in artistic programs at the ULYSSES Network (EU), the FCAYC Foundation (Spain), and SPAIN arts & culture (US), among others, and my work has been supported by, Taiteen edistämiskeskus, Teosto, Musiikinedistämissäätiö, Pro Musica Säätiö, and Suomen Säveltäjät.

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