Fina Miralles Nobell

Fina Miralles Nobell (born 27 September 1950 in Sabadell) is a Catalan artist working across conceptual art, land art, performance art and painting. She is considered one of the most significant Spanish artists active from the 1970s onward, and was among a group of Catalan conceptual artists who worked with nature and the body during the final years of the Franco dictatorship.

Art career

She studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. She took part in founding and running several emblematic contemporary-art spaces in Catalonia, including the Sala Vinçon in Barcelona, Sala Tres in Sabadell, and Espai 13 at the Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona.

Work

Miralles began her career in the early 1970s with a body of conceptual and land-art work centred on the relationship between nature and artifice. Her best-known series include Translacions (Translations, 1973–1974), in which natural elements were displaced into non-natural settings, among them the performance Dona-arbre (Woman-Tree, 1973) carried out at Sant Llorenç del Munt, and Relacions (Relations, 1975), documenting the relationship of the body with natural elements. In the 1980s, following extended travels in Latin America, France and Italy, her work shifted toward painting and graphic work marked by a search for spirituality; after 2000 she returned to action and performance art in dialogue with the land and sea, and in later years has published poetry.