Natasha Mijares: a mascletà for burning and flowering
- Oct 19-Nov 16 2025
- Opening performance Oct 19 / Gallery hours Sundays 2-5PM
A mascletà, a combustion, a boom. An ancient flower blooming at night when no one is watching.
There is an art of gathering what to burn.
In a mascletà for burning and flowering, Natasha Mijares explores the Valencian mascletà tradition, a celebration known for pyrotechnic combustion, and translates the elements of the event into text, textile, and performance. The work explores bodies, dance, nature, deception, and the geopolitical overtones to many rituals and traditions and how we embrace and escape them at the same time.
Please join us for an opening reception and performance with the artist on Sunday, October 19 from 2-5PM. Subsequently, Leisure’s front gallery will be open from 2-5PM on Sundays until November 16.
Natasha Mijares
Natasha Mijares is an artist, writer, curator, and educator. She received her MFA in Writing from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited at Gallery 400, MECA International Art Fair in Puerto Rico, The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, and Locust Projects. She has been published in Container, Vinyl Poetry, The Gravity of the Thing, and Hypertext Magazine.
