Mira Jaan, (b 2001) is an artist based in Johannesburg and Cape Town South Africa.
Their core concern is androgyny, doppelgängers, double lives. For them nobody is ever one thing, we are all split genetically, spiritually, emotionally in search for all eternity for our twin. The figures in their art resemble them, but they are not a mimetic reflection of them as a person. It’s more about them or anyone as an idea, an idea of how one projects themselves, what one aspires to, what one aligns themselves with, what constructs the notion of the ‘self’. They aim to eliminate any narcissistic connotations associated with self in their art and instead enter the silence of selfhood and ask themselves ‘what is the you that is you but what is the journey you’re undertaking when you make or tell a story’. In paintings that focus on the embrace, they dramatize this quest. It is not symmetry they seek in their twin division but the inescapable and necessary condition of love – to love.
