Miler Lagos

Miler Lagos - Rio de los Deseos

Técnica: Epoxy resin on cotton paper

Biografía del Artista: The work of Miler Lagos is born from his extensive and incisive experimentation with different materials and how these have detonated central questions that permeate and nourish his work. One of his main searches has been the relationship between images and objects, in some way between content and container. This is how paper leads to images and from images to the passage of time and from the passage of time to the archive, to memory, to the physical and visual witness of culture; and in the midst of working with paper as a container, thanks to an accident while he was carving it with an angle grinder, the paper returned to its natural condition, that of a tree. This fortuitous encounter allows us to see his diverse interests, which are mostly found at the intersection of nature and culture, in how humans have shaped their space or have been shaped by environmental/geographical conditions, by rivers, lagoons, trees, mountains and how we gradually convert nature into a resource to inhabit, into raw material, into just a vehicle. It is precisely at this point where his exploration with materials transforms these concerns and the matter is able to reveal its essence. He has participated in the Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador; Open Art Orebro, Sweden; SITE Santa Fe Biennial, New Mexico, USA; Havana, Cuba; TRIENNIAL POLI/GRÁFICA San Juan, Puerto Rico; Biennial of the Americas, Denver, USA; VIII Biennial of Bogotá, Colombia. His work has also been exhibited in institutions such as: Frost Art Museum, Miami, USA; Museo de la Tertulia, Cali, Colombia; Museo de Arte del Banco de la Republica. Bogotá, Colombia; Museum of Contemporary Art of Monterrey, Mexico; Gasworks, London, UK; Claremont Museum, Los Angeles, USA; Museo de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia; York University Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada; Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid, Spain. His work is found in collections such as MUAC Museo de Arte Universidad Autónoma de Mexico; Harvard University; Banco de la Replública de Colombia; Rubell Family Collection and Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation CIFO.

Miler Lagos' practice is based on dialogue and experimentation with materials, which manifest themselves as catalytic agents for the central issues in his artistic discourse. One of his fundamental points of reflection is the relationship between images and objects, between content and container. There is a deep interest in studying how humans have shaped their space or have been shaped by environmental and geographic conditions. There is also an intention to raise awareness about the conservation of the environment and its gradual transformation into a resource for living there, into raw material, into just one vehicle.