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Here I am bored out of my drab mind in the irrelevant countryside 🥰
Painting by @josepmaynou , part of his show GAL, currently on view at @spiritvesselespinavessa
📸 by @oliviabaes

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Azar, 2019-2026.
Acrylic on canvas.
200 x 150 cm.

There is a word beautiful enough to name a child after, Azar, which in Spanish means chance or luck or fate.

Azar comes from the Al-Andalus era term ‘az-zahr’, referring to a gaming die, specifically an ancient taba or tarsal bone with a flower carved into it. If the bone fell in such a way that the flower was visible, the player won. Or lost, depending on which account you read.
I also read that Az Zahr means “the whole mountain in flower after spring rains” 🤯
The Spanish word ‘azahar’, meaning ‘citrus blossom’, comes from the Classical Arabic word ‘zahr’ (زهر) meaning ‘flowers’, which evolved into the Andalusi Arabic form ‘azzahár’. The Andalusi Arabic term was then folded into Spanish as ‘azahar’.

To “jugar el azar” is to play with fate.

I made this painting at the end of June in 2019 in a tiny sweaty basement studio in a small town near Figueres, Spain. Sira was burstingly pregnant and the painting had to be finished before her water broke. I dont know what’s running through your head when you’re making your *last painting as a person who is totally and unequivocally singularly responsible for themselves*, but running through mine were notions of CROSSING THE THRESHOLD, LUCK, CHANCE, that the unknown of tomorrow is magic that keeps us on our toes. That all things are about to change in all ways.

I considered these things as I was painting, that there needed to be chaos and chance embedded inside the productive logic of this piece. I decided the best way to make a mark that would be indicative of said chaotic chance would be to dip a 20 meter climbing rope into black ink and, for lack of better words, lasso it onto the plane. Sometimes magic lives in places that dont make sense. What resulted was this snake-like embossed Black-Metal mandala that not even the most qualified robots in Elon Musk’s rolodex could conceive.

The baby was born on July 3rd, and we decided to name her Kaja after my great-great grandmother.

The painting was shown in Unsupported Message Format, which opened on July 10th, 2019 at Galerie Valeria Cetrero in Paris, curated by Pierre Clement.

Now I’m messing with it anew.

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SUBMISSION: KIN TOO

Church of St Feliu, Lladó, Presented by #Spiritvessel, Espinavessa
August 01 — 08, 2026

Artists: Monia Ben Hamouda, Andrew Birk, Michele Gabriele, Sahatsa Jauregi, Jordi Mitjà.

Photography: Roberto Ruiz

Full documentation available on ofluxo.net web platform:
➔ ofluxo.net/kin-too-group-exhibition-church-of-st-feliu-llado-presented-by-spiritvessel-espinavessa/

@spiritvesselespinavessa
@jordi_mitja
@sahatsajauregi
@michele__gabriele
@andrewbirk
@monia.benhamouda.studio
@roberto_ruiz_fotografo_de_arte

#ofluxoplatform
@ofluxoplatform

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Andrew Birk
Floating House, 2026.
Acrylic on tarpaulin.
8 x 12 m (26.25 x 39.37 feet).

Part of the exhibition Kin Too, @spiritvesselespinavessa @ the church of Sant Feliu de Lladó, curated by @sira_piza , with works of @jordi_mitja @sahatsajauregi @michele__gabriele @monia.benhamouda.studio and myself.
Photographed by @roberto_ruiz_fotografo_de_arte .

Twenty years in the game and art is still the most fun, playful, serious, deep, dynamic thing in my life. The thing that has brought me people and place. The thing that has found me family and home. The thing that connects me to all things. I always knew this would be my path but I had no idea what that would entail, where, how. How insane it is to have the privilege to mount a painting the size of a house inside a cavernous desacralised church on the hilltop of a tiny ancient village in a far away place. New challenges every day. New goals every day. There is no glass ceiling the ceiling is infinity the possibilities are infinite.

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A fervent faith in the redemptive, ritualistic value of sculpture and a knowing embrace of a cultural form the US has made peculiarly its own: the conspiracy theory... My latest @friezeofficial review is of @leahelizabethdixon’s ‘TARTAN TARTANA’ – on view at @spiritvesselespinavessa, Espinavessa, Catalonia, until 12 September! Link in bio.

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Summer show success!!! Thank you to everyone who came out on the first day of vacation to see this super special group of people in this super special place. Thank you to all the artists for believing so enthusiastically and always showing up with the best energy. See you soon with the best show photos by the best photographer!

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A piece from my collection by @andrewbirk is currently installed in the public restroom at @heartmuseum.
If you’re in the area, stop by, check it out… and while you’re there, give it a try. 💩

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Thank you @saliva.live !! 🦠 TARTAN TARTANA @spiritvesselespinavessa by @leahelizabethdixon and curator @sira_piza @andrewbirk - if you find yourself in Catalonia - go 👁️👁️🌀!

photos by @roberto_ruiz_fotografo_de_arte

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Today, Michele Gabriele participates in Kin (Too), a group exhibition curated by Sira Pizà and presented by Spirit Vessel.

Opening | 1 August | 6 PM

Plaça de Sant Feliu
7745 Lladó
Girona, Spain

Kin (Too) brings together artists with distinct practices who share a similar intensity of inquiry, creating a space for dialogue, mutual support, and the continued development of their artistic trajectories.

The exhibition features works by Michele Gabriele, Monia Ben Hamouda, Andrew Birk, Jordi Mitjà, and Sahatsa Jauregi.

Photo courtesy of @spiritvesselespinavessa

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"TARTAN TARTANA is an exhibition at @spiritvesselespinavessa that congeals the long-term weaving of the origin story of the invention of the wheel. In it @leahelizabethdixon connects different points in space and time: the traces of her omnipresent fictional character - a prehistoric girl who conceives the device that will turn into global transportation - and the basic geometrical gesture that allowed for the beginning of this movement - the grid -; are coexisting with a seemingly technologically advanced reality that skyscrapers stand for, reflecting at once the endless potential of human ambition and its fragility.

#LeahDixon is an artist based in NYC whose sculptural work investigates the relationship between bodies and architecture in shared social spaces. Using a self-made language of flexible and modular geometry and a personal color science, she builds highly physical structures, both in scale and in labor, that reference intanaible and immeasurable structures -of knowledge, of power of belief. The narratives behind her work use the logic of mythological tales, constructed to explain events, conflicts within or outside of ourselves, and the way we function on a universal scale. Dixon's methodologies encompass sculpture, painting, performance, minimalist architecture, set design, and nightlife.

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In addition to, and in combination with her art practice, Dixon is the founder, designer, builder, and creative director of @beverlysnyc - a full bar, a sculpture, a social architecture project, and an arts and nightlife institution in Lower Manhattan.

— Text, love and care by Spiritvessel magicians @sira_piza and @andrewbirk + two little elves.

#spiritvessel #espinavessa

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bona revetlla 🔥

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Absolute Truth as Motivational Fantasy
Acrylic on tarpaulin, grommets & bungee cords.
95 x 114 cm
2026

Currently on view in Portals, my solo exhibition at @galeria__alegria until June 25th, 2026

Photos by the great @roberto_ruiz_fotografo_de_arte

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