Identity

 MISS INNACK

Barcelona, 1976

Iona-Teresa Riera Dantí. Economist. Artist. The same person.

Miss Innack is not an alter ego. It is what happens when the mask comes off.

I grew up surrounded by unfinished canvases, dog-eared books, and my father — who had lived twelve years in Brazil and taught me to see the world in its deepest vibration.

As a child I lost myself in the pages of Serra d'Or without fully understanding the words, sensing only their weight. When I discovered Carles Hac Mor, something broke open. His verses taught me that language without limits is the only honest language.

I never chose between painting and thinking. I refused the choice.

My practice is built on a single obsession:

Totality constructed fragment by fragment.

Not as metaphor. As method.

Layer by layer. Material by material. Pressure applied until the surface holds what cannot be said.

The work does not represent. It is.

I have founded companies, led finance and process design, worked in five languages across three continents.

The same eye that reads a balance sheet reads a canvas.

Structure is not the enemy of intuition. It is what gives intuition somewhere to land.

This is for my father, who taught me to see.