I don't want to be beautiful. I want to be free of it.
Terkel Mira · paints on what others have thrown away
all the things I never get said end up in here
Waste of good performance
The one who can smell the feeling is not its owner
Cats
you are allowed this close
it came along to the woods before it was allowed to hang still
Du må ikke tage min sorg fra mig
Love across,
love despite
the whole work, 40 × 90
two bodies, one colour from being the same
the papers pile up on the floor. some of them are allowed on the wall
The body first. Gender, if it needs to come along at all.
she is still in the studio, taking up all of it
Den røde tykke dame
She was the first work where I let the body be exactly as big as it is. No apologies, no wrapping.
she and The Transbody were part of an exhibition about the body at Dokk1 in Aarhus, May 2024
Det er alt jeg har
Two hands holding everything out at once. I painted it in a period where I had nothing to give but what I am. That had to be enough.
that had to be enough
A few quick portraits to help spring along a little.
the notebook is always with me · spring 26
Min kønsløse krop self-portrait, 2026
I painted my body without making it into anyone. Just a body, sitting and thinking. That was harder than it sounds.
Jeg ved ikke hvem jeg skal spejle mig i
the blue one, detail up close
All the things I never get said, end up in my paintings.
Terkel paints on reclaimed canvases and works with contrasts between gender, identity, belonging, the body and the unsaid.
More about Terkel
Ink on A4. The fastest thing I have.
Where it started
Blind goddess
painted in 2021, before I dared paint everything else. She still looks at me.
