“Emilia Sirrs. Abstraction and Spirituality” in Cultural Institute of Mexico in Miami 2019, is the first individual exhibition in the United States of this important painter and sculptor, one of the most singular voices of Mexican Abstraction today. The exhibition, which includes unseen recent works, focuses on the artist’s pictorial work of the last two years. It highlights a vision of Abstract art translated to a symbolic language, Sirrs’ poetic and discursive interest for those cultural objects and states of nature that embody spirituality. Examples of these cultural objects are the paintings Inanga and Batá, part of a pictorial series which alludes to musical instru-ments as expressions of indigenous thought and cultures. In works
such as Despues del Sol and Entre blancos the look of Emilia Sirrs moves to these
areas and states, to those atmospheres of the natural realm that invite contemplation, where spirituality wraps
