Jorge Miño Praxis International Art, Buenos Aires

He usually bases his work on the concept of series; mechanisms, work devices, designs for interiors, and architectures form part of an inventory of images which he has been exhibiting since 2004. The exhibition Los sueños de la material (The dreams of matter), curated by Ana Martínez Quijano at Praxis International Art, features works belonging to the series Demasiado lleno para estar vacío (Too full to be empty) and En silencio (In Silence). They are photographs that highlight the strange and austere beauty of staircases, including steps, banisters and landings, ramps and windows, ceilings and so on.

A photographic mural from the series En silencio (2013) measuring three by five meters, reveals a cement structure that conveys an idea of solidity, contradicted simultaneously by its almost abstract quality. In this way Miño magnifies the strategy developed generally in all the images displayed in this show, in which the materials – glass and concrete, iron and steel – play a leading role. Miño repeats motifs, he conceives frames that isolate and outline the objects that interests him, generating views which are midway between nostalgia and nightmare, absence and seclusion.