Miren Doiz’s position, with her gaze focused on the margins —or, if you will, on “the marginal” of painting—, connects with a trend within Spanish contemporary art that seeks to deconstruct the aesthetic operations of the solemn in favor of the real. It is not an outdated version of Nouveau réalisme, but a palpable anxiety, shared by many Spanish artists, to deactivate the grandiloquence of the modern narrative and its apparent superiority over contemporary life. In this recent series of works, the artist from Pamplona approaches painting and sculpture equally, treating them as ductile and expandable languages. A Dadaist air, with a slight metaphysical tinge, permeates these baroque bodies, which constitute an absolutely personal bricolage —a la Lévi-Strauss. (…)              _Luis Sicre