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This is an original painting by Mila Useche. This artwork was part of the 'RETROSPECT' group exhibition and pop-up store held at Shell Space from 1-2 November, 2025.
Title: Apparition Nr.6
Year: 2025
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 27.3 × 22cm
In my work, I blend pop-inspired visuals with personal stories, often drawing on Catholic iconography, animated cartoons, and pre-Columbian mythologies. I’m attracted to how painting, a slow, material act, can counter the speed and saturation of the post-internet world and provide a comforting physical weight, a gentle cage to embrace the uncapturable nature of my Self.
I often apply acrylics onto canvas in a spontaneous way. First, I aim for unrefined and ambiguous shapes, so I can later move on to more complex rendering methods to slowly discover these avatar-like characters you see reappearing in my work.
This approach allows me to overlap my younger self's intuitive energy with my present self's logical thought process, allowing collaboration between these two contradictory and sometimes conflicting identities on the canvas.
Each artwork encapsulates different modules of my identity, so I think of them almost as self-portraits. I want to document these floating fragments of my Self, knowing these pieces of me may not exist tomorrow or even later tonight. I want to keep them vibrant and alive so that I can look back at them and see myself, a collection of aura-selfies of some sort.
Mila Useche was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1993. She completed a B.F.A. at Berliner Technische Kunsthochshule in Berlin, Germany, and currently lives and works in Ehime, Japan. Influenced by her background in animation, comics, Catholic iconography, and her interest in the fast-paced visuals of internet culture, Mila‘s work deals with themes of identity, collective nostalgia, and personal mythologies.
She is represented by Toxic Arts (UK), and has been invited to several exhibitions across the world such as Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia (2024), Vertical Art Gallery, Chicago (2024), Superwow Gallery, Burleigh Heads (2024), && Gallery, Los Angels (2025), Toxic Arts Gallery, London (2025), Vanich Gallery, Bangkok (2025) and is longlisted for ‘CICA Vancouver Emerging & MidCareer International Art Awards 2025’.
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This is an original painting by Mila Useche. This artwork was part of the 'RETROSPECT' group exhibition and pop-up store held at Shell Space from 1-2 November, 2025.
Title: Apparition Nr.6
Year: 2025
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 27.3 × 22cm
In my work, I blend pop-inspired visuals with personal stories, often drawing on Catholic iconography, animated cartoons, and pre-Columbian mythologies. I’m attracted to how painting, a slow, material act, can counter the speed and saturation of the post-internet world and provide a comforting physical weight, a gentle cage to embrace the uncapturable nature of my Self.
I often apply acrylics onto canvas in a spontaneous way. First, I aim for unrefined and ambiguous shapes, so I can later move on to more complex rendering methods to slowly discover these avatar-like characters you see reappearing in my work.
This approach allows me to overlap my younger self's intuitive energy with my present self's logical thought process, allowing collaboration between these two contradictory and sometimes conflicting identities on the canvas.
Each artwork encapsulates different modules of my identity, so I think of them almost as self-portraits. I want to document these floating fragments of my Self, knowing these pieces of me may not exist tomorrow or even later tonight. I want to keep them vibrant and alive so that I can look back at them and see myself, a collection of aura-selfies of some sort.
Mila Useche was born in Bogotá, Colombia, in 1993. She completed a B.F.A. at Berliner Technische Kunsthochshule in Berlin, Germany, and currently lives and works in Ehime, Japan. Influenced by her background in animation, comics, Catholic iconography, and her interest in the fast-paced visuals of internet culture, Mila‘s work deals with themes of identity, collective nostalgia, and personal mythologies.
She is represented by Toxic Arts (UK), and has been invited to several exhibitions across the world such as Arch Enemy Arts, Philadelphia (2024), Vertical Art Gallery, Chicago (2024), Superwow Gallery, Burleigh Heads (2024), && Gallery, Los Angels (2025), Toxic Arts Gallery, London (2025), Vanich Gallery, Bangkok (2025) and is longlisted for ‘CICA Vancouver Emerging & MidCareer International Art Awards 2025’.
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