Myrza is a Dutch artist and designer based in the UK and has graduated from the MA fashion program at Central Saint Martins in 2011. Her work moves between art and design, using multiple forms of handcrafts. After graduating she started her own label and has also worked in the fashion industry with a.o. Bottega Veneta, Martine Rose, Orson & Bodil, and has worked in the art industry as an embroiderer and artist assistant for Tracy Emin and Michael Raedecker. Conjoined with her artwork she creates ceramic accessories and home wares. She has been featured in magazines like Vogue, The Face, TANK, POP, Purple, Marfa Journal, Wallpaper, Dazed and Confused, Girls Like Us, a.o.
Also referring to the artworks as ‘Naked Philosophers’, the pieces are mostly designed by cut up garments and pieces of cloth that are immersed in a composition exposing intimate and human characteristics, creating an anthropomorphic play.
Garments are used as a medium and are bent into an image on a canvas, taking an exterior and cracking it open to reveal the insides. Exposing the intimacy of the human body in close up, fragmented, isolated and abstracted. What could be hyper sexual becomes an image like a landscape; emphasising the sacred nature of our sexuality and human form, highlighting the beauty of the fragility behind the covers we apply through our exterior presentation. Striving to emphasise a sense of the unveiled self rather than becoming a brand personified.
Myrza often works with ‘ready made’ garments she has a strong connection with, has often worn for many years and has grown attached to. Fully encoded with memories, wear and tear and a history of personal style, instead of discarding them they become preserved like pages of a diary.