My name is Miranda Biondi, also known as Donnamiranda. I am an art director and visual artist based in Milan. My research emerges from the intersection of academic training in design, professional experience in image-making, and a personal journey of physical and inner transformation. After studying Design at NABA, I worked in creative direction and graphic design, refining a visual language deeply attentive to composition, space, and visual storytelling. Today, I channel these elements into painting as my most authentic form of expression.
The body lies at the core of my practice. I see it as a living temple, both strong and vulnerable, constantly evolving. I have personally undergone a profound physical transformation that taught me to look at myself with greater care and respect. This experience reshaped my relationship with image and body representation, leading me to reject rigid and idealized standards. In my paintings, I choose to portray diverse and liberated bodies, often in motion, where imperfection and strength coexist and become painterly matter.
My gesture is instinctive and dynamic. Color is intense and emotional. I work with bold fields of color, contrasts, and layered surfaces to convey sensations rather than likenesses. I am more interested in capturing the energy of a body that trains, pauses, or breathes than in its anatomical description. For this reason, my figures often appear synthetic, disproportionate, and deliberately distant from conventional ideas of perfection. In every painting, I seek a balance between control and surrender. The structural aspect, composition, spatial relationships, and the dialogue between fullness and emptiness coexist with the freedom of the mark and with error embraced as possibility.
My work is also deeply nourished by my relationship with sport and well-being. Training, movement discipline, and self-care enter my visual imagination as concrete practices of self-listening. The body is not something to be corrected, but an ally to be understood. Painting thus becomes a parallel form of training, where every figure is an exercise in awareness and every canvas a space in which to measure limits, resistance, and new possibilities.
Through these bodies, I aim to propose a radically inclusive idea of beauty. I am interested in representing what is often hidden, fatigue, scars, asymmetries, and those moments when we do not feel right within the image we project to others. I believe that sharing fragility, not only strength, is both a political and emotional act. It is the first step toward recognizing ourselves, transforming ourselves, and feeling more at ease in our own skin. My works aspire to become spaces in which viewers can recognize themselves, feel welcomed, and perhaps allow themselves a kinder gaze toward their own bodies.
For me, art is a way of training the eye to love the body as it is, strong, imperfect, and in transformation. Representing free and vulnerable bodies means creating images that do not judge, but instead open possibilities for identification and dialogue.
