Miller Lagos

Miler Lagos's work is born from his broad and incisive experimentation with different materials and how these materials have sparked central questions that permeate and inform his work. One of his main pursuits has been the relationship between images and objects, in a sense, 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 while working with paper as a container, thanks to an accident while carving it with an angle grinder, the paper returned to its natural condition: that of a tree. This chance encounter allows us to see his diverse interests, which mostly lie at the intersection of nature and culture: how human beings have shaped their space or have been shaped by environmental/geographical conditions, by rivers, lagoons, trees, mountains, and how we gradually transform nature into a resource for inhabiting it, into raw material, into merely 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 Biennial, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA; Havana, Cuba; TRIENNIAL POLI/GRÁFICA, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Biennial of the Americas, Denver, USA; and the 8th Bogotá Biennial, Colombia. His work has also been exhibited at institutions such as: Frost Art Museum, Miami, USA; Museo de la Tertulia, Cali, Colombia; Museo de Arte del Banco de la Republica, Bogotá, Colombia; Museo de Arte Contemporary de 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 can be found in collections such as MUAC Museo de Arte Universidad Autónoma de Mexico; Harvard University; Banco de la República de Colombia; Rubell Family Collection; and Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, CIFO.