María Magán, Untitled, 2022, Mixed Media

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This wall-mounted mixed media work by María Magán combines textiles, painting, and woodworking into a surreal, sensorial tableau. Titled Mosca … Read more This wall-mounted mixed media work by María Magán combines textiles, painting, and woodworking into a surreal, sensorial tableau. Titled Mosca and part of the series Ni antes ni después, the piece presents a theatrical assemblage of symbolic elements: a round painted fly head with a protruding tongue centered on a bold red wooden panel, a white embroidery hoop hanging below, and a richly floral textile stretched across the background support. The construction fuses flatness and volume, narrative and ornament. The work draws on a dreamlike logic rooted in Magán’s personal rereading of Lewis Carroll’s Alice, navigating between fantasy, delirium, and altered perception. The fly—a grotesque yet strangely tender creature—anchors the viewer in a space where the abject meets the decorative, and where bodily imagery is filtered through the lens of the absurd. Each element resists simple interpretation, functioning as both symbol and prop in a surrealist stage. Formally, the piece plays with visual hierarchy, scale, and contrast: the vivid red block floats against the floral background, which is both domestic and disorienting. Painted details emerge from the layered composition, prompting viewers to decode the narrative through texture, surface, and spatial tension. Mosca exemplifies Magán’s exploration of the irrational as a site of pleasure and confusion—an invitation to inhabit ambiguity through material excess. Medium: Mixed media (textile, wood, acrylic, embroidery) Dimensions: 96 x 89 x 6 cm Dimensions (packaged): 105 x 98 x 11 cm (estimated) Weight: 5 kg Series: Ni antes ni después Condition: New – Original work, signed by the artist Installation: Wall-mounted This piece is attributed to the mentioned designer/maker. It has no attribution mark and no
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