Endless Incantations: Lux Miranda
Upcoming exhibition
Press release
The PILL® is proud to host Lux Miranda’s solo exhibition, Endless Incantations, in Paris from January 8 to February 21, 2026. Featuring recent works from the artist's well-known wool tapestries and a new series of sculpted metal pieces, the exhibition presents an immersive environment that lends itself to meditative contemplation of abstraction as a political refuge, detached from the noise of the world, transcending both desire and fear.
“Lux Miranda has an intimate practice of drawing. In the folds of her notebooks, the artist detaches herself from expectations, norms, injunctions, and assignments. She takes a step back, observes in hyper-presence, and traces the forms that have passed through her. This research can be situated within a careful study and edifying practice of dharma, the texts of Asian philosophical thought that open the way to conscious and focused behavior. It is a matter of confronting the incessant noise of our inner selves, exploring the abyss, facing our fears, tasting connection, and accepting the impermanence of all things. Through this daily practice of drawing, Lux Miranda reflects on what art historian Aby Warburg would call “ghosts of forms,” those remnants that inhabit us.
(...) The materiality of the works is not a trivial detail. Lux Miranda seeks a physical relationship with the pieces, while keeping us at a distance. She confronts us with our binary reading of the world, bringing together warm, domestic, absorbent wool with cold, industrial, reflective metal. More than an opposition, it is the experience of a large, interdependent whole, a single incantation that repeats itself and resonates differently each time in the material. Where the tapestries are studded with spikes and reveal their adversity, the metal pieces unfold their sensuality through the iridescence of their surfaces. “Dark and truly sparkling, that is to say desirable,” says Romain Noel, in a reflection on obscurity as a path to emancipation and survival, which finds a particular echo in Lux Miranda’s creative process.”
Céline Poizat Sabari
Grounded in drawing and informed by a sculptural sensibility, Lux Miranda’s works emerge from a practice attuned to the hidden, often overlooked layers of the occult within contemporary Western consciousness. Each piece begins with a meditative act of mark-making, through which the artist distills a vast and eclectic reservoir of imagery—ranging from Neolithic signs to medieval iconography, neo-Gothic aesthetics to cyberpunk motifs. These references coalesce into a personal symbolic lexicon that gestures toward a shared, transhistorical language. Miranda’s compositions translate emotional thresholds and mental states into rhythmic, chromatic forms that occupy space like sculptural objects. Like sigilsl they are graphic inscriptions of magical intention, reminiscent of ancient picto-ideographic systems that predate writing. The recent years have marked an important step in Miranda’s practice towards queer abstraction through contemporary tapestry, combining her research into archaeology, the Neolithic and medieval imaginaries with a reflection on creation as an act of reliance - on oneself, on others, on the cycles of nature and life.
Lux Miranda (b.1990, Bourges) lives and works in Paris. She holds an MFA from Villa Arson, École des Beaux-Arts de Nice (2015). Following her first solo exhibition at SLEEPING WITH GHOSTS, THE PILL (Istanbul, 2021), she participated in group exhibitions such as “Veines d’opale”, Espace Voltaire (Paris, 2022); Inspiré.es Acte 03, Centre d’art L’Artsenal (Dreux, 2023), “Caliban and the Witches”, Berlinskej Model (Prague, 2023) et “Dreams”, Chateau La Coste (Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, 2025). Lux Miranda was the recipient of the inaugural B Signature Prize for Contemporary Art in 2023 and of a residency fellowship at the Cité des Arts, Paris in 2024.
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