Artistic Statement

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In Intimités arrachées, Mickey Pujolar Leray develops a practice of the image grounded in a paradox: making something appear by removing it. Where pictorial tradition builds through accumulation, the artist works through subtraction. Drawing, inking the surface in black, then slashing, scratching, and tearing it away layer after layer, the surface becomes the site of a gradual revelation. The image is not produced; it is uncovered.