Mirela Fioresy is a visual artist whose work explores the invisible forces that shape how we see ourselves and each other. Through painting and mixed media she focuses on what brings us together and what keeps us apart, examining how our environments, beliefs, and emotions shape both personal experience and the wider collective consciousness.

For her GlogauAIR residency, Fioresy introduces “Water and Oil Don’t Mix” as both the title and the guiding principle of her project. She takes a fundamental lesson from painting – that oil and acrylic will never blend – and transforms it into a method for discovery. By layering these materials on a single surface, she allows their resistance to guide the outcome, watching pigments push, repel, and settle into surprising organic forms. This encounter becomes both process and metaphor, capturing moments of tension, separation, and uneasy coexistence.