Miler Lagos Colombia, b. 1973

Material Witness presents 30 of today’s most compelling and innovative artists employing non-traditional materials and processes. Squid ink, Coca-Cola, ostrich eggs, anointing oil, lipstick, discarded metal, and animal hides are...

The title comes from the Latin word merx, meaning merchandise, and at the same time it alludes to Mercury, the Roman god of messages and communication. In mythology, Mercury was...

This exhibition reveals itself as a repertory of approaches to our natural surroundings, its elements and the living beings that find a home there. This selection of pieces from the...

This project was born from the encounter with a 1,800-year-old olive tree from Calabria. After the tree died during transport from Italy to Spain, Miler Lagos recovered a cross-section of...

The Reserve encapsulates a process of exploration by artist Miler Lagos , sparked by the gift of a fragment from the trunk of a century-old tree felled in the Rosales...

The Map of the Journey may well lie in El Camino de la Danta , a project in which the artist traces a fragment of the Milky Way on a...

Tic-Tac is conceived as a time capsule, whose structural resource employs the most fitting material for preserving memory: paper. The passage of time and the tangible evidence of transformation are...

In the Lagos series, Miler Lagos turns water into sculptural matter. Each piece is born from an operation that appears simple: pouring liquid resin over crumpled cotton paper. Within that...

The Cimiento series consists of sculptures carved from blocks of paper that, through meticulous manual work, take on the shape, texture, and color of tree trunks, thus evoking the raw...

“The almost imperceptible movement of a bright red, heart-shaped balloon across the dark surface is, in fact, the violent fall of a nearly 10-kilogram concrete object” Attraction was filmed on...

Series of sculptures in printed paper In this series, Miler Lagos moves away from the religious imagery present in other works of Cimiento to explore the relationship between humans and...

Photographic record: 2.10 × 1.50 m (diptych) The Inmersos series redefines the symbolic function of the commemorative bust in public space. Rather than focusing solely on the visible figure, Miler...

This series consists of sculptures in the shape of trees, directly carved into blocks of paper. During the process, the friction burns the material, imparting a color, texture, and smell...

In Levedad Insoportable (Unbearable Lightness), Miler Lagos constructs an image that seems immediately familiar: a cluster of metallic, heart-shaped balloons anchored to the ground. At first glance, everything suggests lightness...

In Los términos del juego (The Terms of the Game ), Miler Lagos presents a critical reflection on the notion of reality and how it is culturally constructed. Through an...

Plazas Disponibles was an urban intervention carried out in the early hours of the morning in Bogotá, for which curator Jaime Cerón drafted a letter that, while not an official...

Lugares Soberanos poses a sculptural problem through the transformation of a flat material (printed formica) into a three-dimensional volume that emulates marble. The installation consists of six Ionic columns made...

Arqueología del Deseo is a visual art proposal that seeks to harness the physical qualities of candies to create a classification system similar to that used for minerals considered precious...