WATER AND OIL DON’T MIX: OPEN FIELDS

“Water and Oil Don’t Mix” is both the title and the guiding principle of this project. Mirela Fioresy 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. 

In this new body of work, Open Fields, the white ground remains visible and active, creating space for material interactions to unfold. Oil and acrylic are layered onto the surface, where their natural resistance generates movement, dispersion, and unexpected formations. Rather than forming a single dominant field, multiple elements coexist across the canvas, allowing tension and balance to emerge organically. The result is a surface that feels both open and charged: suspended between control and unpredictability.

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