Mira Caselius

Artist and Designer

Art
Design
- Graphic Design & Illustration
Contact + links

Art
Design
- Graphic Design & Illustration
Contact + links

Email: mira.caselius@pm.me

Instagram: @mira_caselius

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Mira Caselius is a multidisciplinary artist born and living in Helsinki, Finland. She currently employs watercolour and ink as her main media, but her working methods range from drawing and painting to video, installation art and writing. In her art, Caselius has been working on themes such as the collective subconscious, transgenerational emotional memories, social origins of mental health issues and, related to this, the conflict between our deepest, often unrecognised needs and the social construction we live our lives in. In her melancholic drawings and paintings, Caselius often depicts people as an infinite mesh transcending space and time, where everyone is interconnected, and our history as the history of a multi-layered, collective trauma with long, invisible roots that reach long beyond the horizon of memory and understanding; a trauma created by different forms of violence and conditioning, of ancient origin, continuously reproducing themselves. It is said that no-one is free as long as not everyone is: other people’s suffering, for instance poverty and wars, have an impact on everyone, in a way or another. The shared darkness, as Caselius calls it, is now more intense than ever, due to the destructive, accelerating hyper-capitalism, in particular its most brutal and lucrative forms like war industry. However, Caselius’ works are not all grim and gloomy: the delicacy and care she treats her subjects with reveal compassion towards humanity in a subtle, silent manner.