Mireille's work is not actually based on found images of torn street posters but on small collages, which she makes out of carefully, chosen torn bits and pieces of pages from color magazines. Accordingly, the statement of Mireille's works is not merely about the final visual outcome but also about the process of making them; this process underlines the differences between the “apparently” accidental act of tearing strips of paper to create an original collage on the one hand and the act of carefully working out the blown up paintings on the other. The adjoined and juxtaposed images and texts in Mireille Merhej’s paintings take us into a journey across time and Pop cultures: they mirror the worlds in the eye of the artist who is inviting us to escape from the burden of our mundane and stressful environment and visit her Pandora’s Box of la Dolce vita” 

Mohammad El Rawas-2012

 

“In my works, I try to transform scattered images floating in my mind into an interesting work of art”, she said. It is her ability to convert imagination into something more real which lies at the basis of her art; it is her attempt of putting back together all those personal and nostalgic memories into an acceptable form like putting together a broken piece of pottery, knowing that traces of fractures will always remain. Mireille admires her past and cherishes what it contains. She finds it inspirational, mystic, each one of the images she selects is related a story whose importance has not faded to her.