“ If Mira Schendel’s art is the art of the void, as Haroldo de Campos (1966) once said, in some of her monotypes the void lies encrusted with signs and letters, as if silence and voice endured the damnation of being mirrors for one another, while waiting for the word. Mira Schendel’s monotypes can still be the outermost skin of the world’s substance, as Max Bense mentioned. The monotypes render a double service. On the one hand, they satisfy the material desire for an incision, without harming the delicate Japanese paper. On the other hand, they create a reality with the absorption of the ink by the paper, thus becoming an integral part of it, as a way of allowing the sign to materialize. This impregnation consolidates a rarefied existence, as if the sign had landed there softly or were a part of it from the beginning.”

Mira Schendel: Monotypes, exh. cat., Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, 2009