Living with Art: Angelina Mirabito Beyond the Gallery

28 September 2026

Written by Zic Liu

In a gallery, we are used to seeing art in a certain way. White walls and open spaces allow us to focus almost entirely on the artwork itself.

However, when an artwork enters a home, our relationship with it begins to change. Furniture, light, materials, colour, and the traces of everyday life all become part of how we experience the work.

This time, a collaboration between Angelina Mirabito and Fotini Malivindi for the Lumi Series by Arli Homes brings Angelina’s artworks into a series of designed display homes.

Through this collaboration, art and interior design naturally begin to work together. The interiors give Angelina’s paintings a real domestic setting, allowing us to imagine how a work might live alongside furniture, natural light and everyday life. At the same time, the artworks bring more personality and feeling into the carefully designed display homes, making the spaces feel warmer and more lived-in.

In one of the living rooms, a large-scale work with bold red lines sits within a space mostly made up of timber, cream and black. The painting brings energy into an otherwise quiet and restrained interior. It becomes a natural focal point without taking away from the balance of the room.

In another display home, one of Angelina’s softer works creates a very different feeling. Surrounded by earthy furniture, light fabrics and natural light, the painting does not try to stand apart from the interior. Instead, it settles naturally into the space, making the room feel warmer and calmer.

Elsewhere, a colourful work filled with blue, green and pink brings a completely different energy to a softer lounge setting. The room itself is quite neutral, but the painting gives it a stronger sense of personality.

Brighter works can bring character and energy into a neutral interior, while softer works can complement the warmth and textures already present in a room. Smaller paintings placed in hallways, bedrooms and even bathrooms also show that art does not always need a formal setting. It can simply become part of everyday life.

For Romulus Folio, this is something we wanted to show through this collaboration.

Living with an artwork means passing by it every day, seeing it differently as the light changes, and slowly developing your own relationship with it over time. Eventually, a work can become connected to a particular room, a period of life, or even a memory.

In these display homes, Angelina Mirabito’s paintings bring a human touch to spaces that have been carefully designed but are still waiting to be lived in. Art can be one of the things that turns a beautifully designed space into somewhere that feels like home.