Swiss-brazilian artist Mira Schendel (Zurich 1919 - São Paulo 1988) arrived in Brazil after the war, in 1949, and here she began to paint. Although she maintained undeniable connexions with the other artistic movements of the second half of the twentieth century, Mira created a language of her own and produced an aesthetic of the in between, which cannot be reduced to any of the isms of her time. The purpose of the dissertation Mira Schendel: the work of art s net is to investigate Mira s formal choices and expressive concerns as from a representative set of her works, seeking to apprehend the singularity of the artistic and plastic issues implicit in these particular works. Since the 2000 Monotypes, made between 1964-66, her research has been based on series that develop from the unfolding of some matrix issues: the transparent and the opaque, the potentialization of the void, the corporeality of the world, the ambiguities of the sign, time. A prolix artist, she stood out because of her spontaneous experimentalism. Always researching the processes of form, she used unusual materials that established very singular connections; she created an astonishing amount of works that declare the failure of the hierarchy between painting, drawing, sculpture or installation. She cut, punched, kneaded, and literally tied up her supports. She drew with her fingernail on the back of the paper. These unexpected gestures definitely invalidated the illusionist representation and produced a new way of thinking, incredibly free, about painting and pictorial space.