Artworks
Narrative
The project explores the soil and its elements – stone, dust, time, phenomena, and landscapes – as sources of hidden meanings, proposing ways to document what cannot be directly seen. Based on the observation of a construction site near the building where I live, I reflect on the impact of urbanization and the transformation of the land into an “anthroposol” revealing layers of geological and cultural narratives. Divided into three axes – Time, Space, and Fragment – the work investigates how natural structures function as biological archives, connecting the past and the present. Archaeological methodologies are adapted to contemporary art, fostering a critical dialogue within the context of the Anthropocene.
Biography
Miguel Abreu (2000, Caracas) is a visual artist and graphic designer. He has a degree in Communication Design, with a minor in Photography and a masters degree in Contemporary Typographic and Editorial Practices from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon.
In his work, there is a tendency to explore a conceptual process that arises from the existential quest to discover how the world presents itself in a partial way. It is in this circulation of narratives, phenomena and images that the artist finds fertile environments to create points of confluence. He adopts a multidisciplinary and ‘investigative’ stance, searching for materials that are relevant to him, interconnecting them in analogue, temporal and spatial discourses