Tirza Mafi (1996) graduated cum laude in Fine Art from the Minerva Academy in 2024 with a minor at Höchschule für Bildende Kunst in Dresden. As a visual artist specializing in painting, she is concerned with carnality and the human experience.

Tirza works from her own physical experiences and visual fascination with organic tissue. Using paint to intensify the look of pinched skin, groping fingers, glistening mucous membranes and saliva threads, she creates striking, raw, intimate images that balance between attraction and repulsion. By cutting out the body parts closely and blowing them up, the images create both feelings of relatability and discomfort.