Endless Incantations

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T H E P I L L ® 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

Lux Miranda’s practice unfolds at the intersection of sculpture, drawing, tapestry, and poetry, through a deliberately enigmatic and often abstract formal language. Her work questions systemic mechanisms of domination and hegemonic discourses through an intuitive, experimental, and deeply embodied approach.

Her work draws on a wide range of references, from Neolithic and medieval iconography to Gothic art, as well as queer counterculture and the philosophy of Mahāyāna Buddhism. These influences are distilled into hybrid forms in which materials with opposing symbolic and sensory qualities, particularly wool and metal, are brought into confrontation. This material tension acts as a trigger for pre-rational sensations, calling forth in the viewer a bodily, instinctive memory.

For Lux Miranda, the body is a central tool of production: Manual work and sustained effort are an integral part of the creative process. Each piece is conceived as a fragment of a broader whole, a continuum without beginning or end, made up of objects and spaces of projection inhabited by a diffuse and persistent strangeness.

A Franco-Portuguese multidisciplinary artist, Lux Miranda (b. 1990, Bourges) lives and works between Paris and Bourges. She trained at Villa Arson in Nice, then in a special effects workshop for the film industry in Montreuil, where she developed an early physical relationship to materials. She later pursued her research outside the academic framework, contributing to the development of a more personal and embodied approach to art history. She presented her first solo exhibition, Endless Incantations, at THE PILL (Paris, 2026), preceded by Sleeping With Ghosts at THE PILL (Istanbul, 2021). She has taken part in several group exhibitions, including Veines d’opale at Espace Voltaire (Paris, 2022), Inspiré.es Acte 03 at Centre d’art L’Artsenal (Dreux, 2023), and Caliban and the Witches at Berlinskej Model (Prague, 2023). In 2023, she was awarded the First Prize B Signature for Contemporary Art, and in 2024, received a residency grant from the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. In 2025, her work Countless Cycles of Rebirths entered the collections of the City of Paris.

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