Untitled from the series Written (Escritas)

Mira Schendel was a Brazilian artist who worked across drawing, printmaking, and sculpture, creating delicate geometries and mark-making that engaged with language, spirituality, and abstraction. Born in Zurich and based in São Paulo from 1953 onward, her practice emerged from postwar experimentalism, producing small-scale works on paper and translucent materials that explored the threshold between legibility and void. Her monotypes, graphite drawings on rice paper, and white-on-white compositions of the 1960s and 1970s established her as a singular voice in Brazilian modernism.

Zurich, Switzerland