Ana Garces Kiley’s artworks consist of three-dimensional paintings on textile and soft, painted sculptures. In their translucent, layered consistency they appear as dreamy, depictions of deeply personal or natural experiences. The lace-like renderings of some of her human figures appear upon closer examination to be made up of repetitive patterns of house flies, borrowing the vulgar yet ethereal quality of the flies to inform the etherealness and impermanence of her subjects. Her reds, deeply evocative of menstrual blood, imbue her work with both a sense of visual energy and one of a feminine, nurturing comfort. She takes the unsettling imagery of natural experiences like sex, menstruation, birth and death and gives it a sense of purity, with the intention of turning it into the beautiful.