Painting between psychosis and reality. Record and reconstruction of a bipolar disorder

Painting between psychosis and reality shows how bipolar disorder profoundly alters artistic creation. This exhibition is a window into the personal and creative struggle of an artist who combines art and life experience.

Carina Miras, an artist from Valls, combines figuration and abstraction inspired by nature. Her work reflects, for the first time, her battle against the stigma of bipolar disorder, merging activism and art after years of observation on how this condition influences her work.

Painting between psychosis and reality. Record and reconstruction of a bipolar disorder is an exhibition of paintings that stems from a bipolar disorder experienced firsthand. The exhibition brings together a selection of works from different stages over ten years, between the end of 2016 and the present, allowing viewers to observe how mental state directly affects the way of painting.

Carina Miras is a painter from Valls. Her work combines the figurative with the abstract and is usually inspired by elements of nature, born from a deep connection with the countryside. With this exhibition, she merges for the first time her struggle against stigma as an activist with her artistic career, based on the observation she has made over the years of how bipolar disorder is reflected in her work.

The works have been created in very diverse life moments—mania, depression, stability, and mixed episodes—and show how mental state can deeply transform the way of painting. The exhibition places special emphasis on a mania with psychotic symptoms experienced in 2016 and a mixed episode with psychotic symptoms experienced in 2025: two moments in which painting changed radically and, at the same time, gave rise to surprisingly similar forms, repetitions, and structures, related to the experience of hallucinations, voices, and recurring thoughts.

The exhibition is presented at the Castle of Concabella, in the municipality of Plans de Sió, in Segarra, Lleida. The 11th-century castle will host the exhibition until September 27. The opening will take place on July 12 at 1:00 p.m.