Miguel Miceli

Installation

Electromagnetic fields are everywhere, all around us. Generated by both natural elements (lightning, the sun) and human technologies (telecommunications), they weave a hybrid network that most of us cannot perceive. However, there are many species that navigate using the Earth’s magnetic field. Some animals secrete cryptochrome, a molecule that allows them to visualise the magnetic poles as light. But the growing density of our technological artefacts interferes with these biological compasses, and we are seeing more and more species go off course. In the age of a new invisible cartography, traces of these internal compasses have been found in humans.

Sourcing proposes to make electromagnetic fields perceptible by repurposing telecommunications technologies. The installation invites viewers to immerse themselves in a sculptural interworld where these frequencies are made visible in the form of light, fuelled by formal interactions and poetic explorations.

Sourcing is an invitation to lose our bearings, to venture into the realm where the natural and the artificial converge, and to put ourselves in the shoes of species other than our own.

Miguel Miceli

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Miguel Miceli is a multidisciplinary artist. Of Italian and Spanish descent, he was born in Brussels. He studied there at the ERG (École de recherche graphique), then later at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. His practice revolves around the transformation of the landscape, at the intersection of the technological sublime, the occult and ecology. Weaving links between ancestral traditions and modernity, he subverts the anthropocentric gaze with his speculative narratives and evolving installations. He likes to work on the fringes of territories, seeking out elements that are informed by personal and collective memories and question the dualisms between nature and culture, subject and object, dream and reality. His work has been exhibited in several art centers in France, including Passerelle Brest, les Sheds Pantin, the Goethe-Institut Paris, Salon de Montrouge 69, the Centre Wallonie Bruxelles Paris, les Safranumériques, as well as in various emerging spaces in Belgium and London. His films have been screened at several international festivals such as Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen and Malaga Film Festival, and his sound works at events such as the Festival des Cabanes at Villa Medici in Rome with Radio Salé. He has also participated in residencies in Singapore, Belgium, Portugal, Paris, and Corsica.

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