Mira Davida

I use the material glass, and its spectrum of expressiveness, emotional qualities and experiential differences, to be able to create uncanny and mysterious objects.
My installation consists of two main parts: the portals and the creatures.
The portals are three wallpieces, working with the reflective interpretative associations of mirrors, “opening gates” to a different reality, thus setting free the creatures to the space. The materiality of glass is giving depth to the interpretations. The cast glass pieces are attached to a mirror, making it essential for the reflections that amplify its presence. This creates a shimmering, semi-transparent texture with shapes of bodies in a formation of movement.
From the portals, the creatures arise. They are my milestones in the progress of venturing the idea of the uncanny, imagined nature which feeds from personal experience and not mere representation. The flameworked, often silvered glass creates the idea of the sublime as well as the distortion of fragility of glass or lifelike properties of creatures.