My name is Paola Milán.
I work with color, gesture, and the body as ways of returning to myself.
For many years, I moved within the world of graphic design, working inside structures, teams, and projects that were not my own. I learned discipline, perspective, rhythm, and craft. But I also understood that there was something in me that could not fully exist there. Art was not a complement: it was the place I always returned to when I needed to breathe.
My painting practice is born from that necessity. I paint from the physical, from intuition, and from pause. I am interested in the balance between force and restraint, between what expands and what is held. There are layers, there are mistakes, there are silences. I am not looking to decorate; I am looking for presence.
In recent years, I have gone through a deep process of personal and creative reassessment—one that led me to stop, empty out, and begin again. Today, my artistic practice is closely connected to well-being, movement, and a more conscious way of inhabiting time. For me, art is not only an outcome: it is process, listening, and truth.
Alongside painting, I create spaces and experiences where art becomes a tool for connection and transformation. I am interested in accompanying creative processes from an honest place, free from external demands and unnecessary noise.
This project is a new beginning.
A place where my work, my rhythm, and my way of being in the world align.