“Regarder derrière le visible” (2010-2015)

Flesh, a symbolic territory, between science and poetry.

Nude bodies become the supports of a metamorphosis, on their skin are layered 19th-century anatomical plates, fragments of an ancient knowledge, drawings of veins, bones, organs.

The artist thus “dresses” the human with what lies within, revealing a paradoxical beauty, at once carnal and interior, raw and baroque. These bodies, tattooed with intestines, transform into hybrid creatures, into “fashion victims” of another time, adorned not with fabric but with viscera and blood networks.

Presented at the Faculty of Medicine in Nice during the 2016 inaugural ceremony, the series resonated strongly within both the medical and artistic worlds. It was also featured in the magazine Santé Mentale, for which Anthony Mirial created the cover.

Between light and darkness, Mirial brings forth a reinvented humanity, fragile, anatomical, sublime, where the skin becomes the stage for what we refuse to see, life laid bare.