Muddling Through brings together sculpture and mixed media to explore resilience, identity, and the quiet labor of endurance through both personal and collective experience. Mirzam Pérez’s practice is grounded in textile sculpture and layered materials, where fabric, found objects, and vivid color fields evoke landscapes of memory, movement, and belonging. Her work often navigates borderlands—geographical, cultural, and emotional—using symbolic references to land, water, and mapping as ways to reflect on displacement, adaptation, and lived history.

In this exhibition, sculptural forms enter into dialogue, embodying the act of “muddling through” as both strategy and state of being. The Icelandic phrase þetta reddast (Muddling through) functions as a guiding tension—offering comfort, irony, and perseverance in the face of uncertainty. Through tactile surfaces and shifting imagery, Perez invites viewers to slow down and inhabit spaces of ambiguity, where fragility and strength coexist. The exhibition unfolds as a poetic meditation on survival, care, and the creative possibilities that emerge when outcomes remain unresolved.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Mirzam Pérez is a multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, mixed media, and photography. Her practice centers on textile-based processes, layered materials, and symbolic forms to explore themes of resilience, migration, belonging, and the relationship between land and identity. Drawing from personal narratives and collective histories, Pérez creates tactile environments where fragility and strength coexist, often referencing mapping, water, and landscape as sites of memory and transformation. Her work embraces uncertainty as a generative space, reflecting an ongoing inquiry into survival, care, and adaptation. Through material experimentation and poetic visual language, Pérez invites viewers to linger within states of becoming rather than resolution.