Aurel Quirós Miramontes

 

Miramontes work explores patriarchal narratives and the symbolic violence imposed on queer, penetrable, and stigmatised bodies — wounds that echo the sacred, the erotic, and the political.

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He studied sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, following an early arts education at Saint-Luc and further training at Central Saint Martins (London), as well as technical courses in fashion pattern-making and jewellery. Still, Aurel considers himself above all a relentless autodidact. His practice emerges from an obsessive relationship with material, gesture, and demiurgic mythology.

Through animal skins, pharmaceutical capsules, gold and silver leaf and thick, almost edible layers of plaster, he sculpts holes, gashes, and the tight grip of choking — not as symbols, but as thresholds. His materials bleed, glisten, crumble. They speak of desire, dominance, and submission. Of bodies offered and exposed.

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His work reflects the inner torsions of queer bodies unable to break their loyalty to the very narratives that oppress them.