Malca Mizrahi
About
Malca Mizrahi is a British-Argentine artist based in London. A former architect, she was the Lead Designer for the Glasgow Museum of Transport with Zaha Hadid and for the Brunel Building in London. Her academic work at the Bartlett School of Architecture explored the intersection of architecture and art. Malca’s oil paintings extend her doctoral research entitled Lyrical Space, a study of visual lyricism that delves into the relationship between visual complexity, spatiality, and emotion.
Her painting series Marginalia, An Archaeology of the Self portrays people on the margins in Latin America. Malca’s process begins with a textured underpainting—a primitive loam from which the figures slowly emerge. Her exploration of visual and tactile depth oscillates between chance and control, engaging with the fluidity of paint, the resistance of the surface, and the chemical reactions inherent in different media. This underlayer—or metaphorical skin—becomes an emotional landscape, a liminal space shifting between abstraction and figuration.
Acting as an excavation, the paintings explore the nuances of human vulnerability and strength through the sensuousness of mark-making.
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