Mira Schendel

Language stands at the centre of her extraordinary, poetically reduced work, fed by a wealth of influences, with her Jewish and Catholic background playing a role just as much as elements from Western and Eastern philosophy, Zen Buddhism and Concrete Poetry. Schendel painted and drew in a wide variety of media and also worked sculpturally, with her work culminating in her monotypes on semi-transparent rice paper from the 1960s which are considered her most significant and independent works.