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Elena Mir

Visual artist · Valencia, 1981

Elena Mir is a Spanish visual artist. She holds a PhD in Fine Arts and degrees from the Universitat Politècnica de València and the Winchester School of Art (UK). She teaches in the Department of Drawing at the Faculty of Fine Arts, UPV, and is a researcher with the Laboratorio de Creaciones Intermedia (LCI).

She keeps several distinct lines of work active: cut paper, illustration, video art, photography and installation. They are not successive phases, nor variants of one main technique — each has its own development, its own circuit and its own audience. She has shown paper works in galleries and at international fairs, published illustration with publishers and through an agency, presented video art in a solo show, and developed multimedia installation within her university research.

Since 2024 her projects have turned towards social and ecological concerns: Western Sahara, Gaza, inclusion, the environment. That dimension is not new — it was already present in her contribution to the Women, Art and Technology conference in 2010 — but it is what her most recent output concentrates on.

In her work with paper she combines very different traditions: cutting, perforation, fusion and the forming of the sheet itself. Since 2009 she has been developing Geometrical Spaces, a series built with the stratastencil technique: between thirty and a hundred layers of cut paper which, superimposed, generate depth, cast shadow and an image that shifts with the angle it is seen from. To papercutting she adds pin pricking, where the image is not drawn but perforated; joomchi, the Korean technique of fusing hanji paper through water and friction, which seeks irregular edges and transparencies; and pulp painting, which intervenes while the sheet is being formed, integrating colour and image into the fibre.

As an illustrator she has worked independently since 2010 for publishers, agencies, brands and private commissions. She is represented by the agency June Illustration and produces limited-edition prints.

Her academic research runs alongside her studio practice: it addresses multimedia installation and the nature of the projection surface. What happens when the screen stops being a surface and becomes an inhabitable space; how text expands and turns into a narrative vehicle within the installation. It is a single question sustained since 2010. A second line, developed as a team, approaches artificial intelligence on three fronts: assisted creativity, its educational use as a tool of empowerment, and the protection of artistic work against mimetic plagiarism on these platforms.

She has exhibited in Spain, Italy, Kenya and Mexico. In 2026 she takes part in Heterotomías intermedia, a group show curated by the Laboratorio de Creaciones Intermedia. She lives and works in Valencia.

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