Sana Sana

Sana Sana - Ariadna Mavila

Artwork# 8

About the Artist

Name: Ariadna Mavila

School: OCADU

Program: Drawing & Painting

Artist Bio: My practice works as a slow shedding, an act of peeling myth from memory to form emotional landscapes that collapse the veneer of wholeness. I reflect on the push and pull of inheritance through anthropomorphic fauna, organic forms, and fractured figures. Whether through oil or found object, I build scenes that house contradiction: predator and prey, tenderness and decay, child and beast. Grounded in my Peruvian upbringing, I approach abstraction as a language for the unspeakable. Through figures of birds, bulls, and dolphins, I reflect on colonial inheritance, emotional captivity, and the complexity of value.

About the Artwork

Medium: Painting

Size: 48”H x 75"W

Artistic Statement: Titled after the Spanish lullaby for healing, “sana sana, colita de rana”, this piece unravels that comfort. The work explores the aching need to self-soothe when the injury is internalized. A large-scale composition filled with dense marks and bleached textures, Sana Sana is a study of longing for restoration where none is available. It visualizes the insistence of value in a wounded form: tender, fractured, and unable to repair itself cleanly. The fragility of the self emerging as both wound and survival.