Miriam Angeli Padilha

Miriam Angeli Padilha was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1999. She trained in painting at the Parque School of Visual Arts. Lage and a graduate in art history from the Fine Arts School of Rio de Janeiro, she has lived in France since 2020 where she obtained her DNSEP from the Beaux-Arts de Marseille.

Miriam Angeli Padilha's work explores the sacred and magical aspects of modern life. Color is a tool for speaking the silent language of the body. For her canvases are silent, save for the rustling of warm sheets and the rolling of pebbles on the beaches of the South of France. By documenting the present, Miriam Angeli Padilha transforms the everyday into memory and translates its mythologies. Deliberate gestures and innocent celebrations are rituals that ward off tragedy.

[Excerpt from a text written by Adélie Huguenin, doctoral student in contemporary French literature]

At the Tbilisi Art Fair , Miriam Angeli Padilha presents a series of paintings entitled Mergulho do Sol (Sun's Plunge), inspired by the green ray, the first or last visible glow at sunrise or sunset. She has been working on this series since 2024, inspired by the rarity and symbolism attributed to this phenomenon – it is said that those who witness it suddenly attain a form of lucidity.

She also presents a painting entitled Deitada pra direita com nascer e pôr do Sol (Extending to the right with sunrise and sunset), which starts from a travel memory of a friend sleeping in a shared room and extends the paintings of the green ray, associating their symbolic value with sentimental value in the representation of her loved ones.

Selected exhibitions:

2026 Group exhibition «L’Écho du Silence», See Galerie (Paris, FR)

2025 ICART Artistik Rezo Prize, Hotel Mona Bismarck (Paris, FR)

2024 Group exhibition «Campus Panic», Friche la Belle de Mai, Curation: Salma Mochtari (Marseille, FR)

2024 Juvenars Prize 2024, IESA (Paris, FR)

2024 Group exhibition «Tranlation(s)», art-cade galerie des grands bains douches Curation: Arlène Berceliot Courtin (Marseille, FR)

2023 Solo exhibition «Veranico», Solarium, Curation: Maya Benarouch and Yahnis Rocailleux (Marseille, FR)

2022 Group exhibition «Da pintura», Galeria Z42, Curation : Isabel Portella and Patrizia D’Angello (Rio de janeiro, BR)