Valentina Mir, The Angel's Garden, Collage on acrylic on paper, 51 × 47.5 cm | Courtesy Valentina Mir and Galleria 200 C Giudecca

The exhibition L’Orto dell’Angelo (The Angel's Garden) by the artist Valentina Mir inaugurates the new venue of the 200 C Giudecca Gallery, directed by Olga Strada, and will be open to visitors until 30 November 2025. Mir, who lives and works in Paris, presents eleven new works created with collage on paper and acrylic, inspired by Emily Dickinson’s poem Hope is the thing with feathers and by the idea of the hortus clausus understood as “happy entropy”. The exhibition does not focus on the angel as a celestial being, but rather on the inner places it might inhabit, opening symbolic windows - which the artist calls “miramorphoses” - onto collective and individual narratives. Using materials drawn from magazines, books and newspapers, Mir dismantles and recomposes visual elements in poetic layers that evoke contemporaneity as an inner garden where time and space lose their linearity. The new gallery, located in the historically and culturally rich context of the Giudecca, aims to establish itself as a reference point for contemporary art, opening with a show that brings together visual research and a poetic dimension. With L’Orto dell’Angelo, Mir invites viewers to enter an ambiguous threshold between the visible and the invisible, between matter and dream, and to question their own perception, offering no certainties but proposing a space for suspension and reflection.