Biografia
In her latest work entitled Wo-Man Eva Mitala presents a site – specific project comprising installation, sculpture and painting. Her work has mostly consisted of privately constructed worlds, often using domestic like and childlike imagination as a starting point for both the uncanny, the surreal and the comic. The artist stages real or imaginary situations within the real-life environment. The actual space is always absent from her works. By blending autobiography and fiction, she presents a work in which the boundary between the real and the imaginary is ultimately blurred. The images the artist creates stand as metaphors for the individual’s struggle between the real self on the one hand, and the social and cultural expectations one is called upon to fulfill on the other.The Wo-Man installation plays with the notion of maternity and fatherhood and the dual side of those. The two infant sculptures deal with personal and collective memories, especially as they relate to Mitala’s metaphysical search and the collective experience of human relationships. The white infant made of silicone and polyester is quite fragile and having the astronaut’s helmet on its head alienates it from the natural environment. The artist wishes to express a kind of social alienation where the individual subject's estrangement from its community. She also points out the difficulty in the process of accession and the social issues that humans confront by the time that they are born. The gold infant symbolizes the power either it is related to individuals or to a general social networks. The paintings comment on the feminine and masculine attitudes that sometimes are being overlapped despite the stereotypes.
The star painting is a miniature of the universe. Comprising acrylic painting, drawing and collage the artist creates a colorful world as a comment on persons and nature, on love and sexuality, on political and daily life producing signs from our surroundings and visual world.She explores a broad range of subjects including folklore, nature, mythology and feminine. She uses her visual vocabulary in order to create a fragile reality.
