The Museo Moderno proudly presents this exhibition of works by Jorge Miño (Corrientes, 1973), a leading light of contemporary Argentinian photography. In this selection of works carried out between 2018 and the present, Miño employs a variety of photographic procedures to construct unexpected realities. His images summon impossible volumes, expanding angles and vanishing points, which intersect in a geometry seemingly unbounded by the two-dimensional plane. Standing before these works, the viewer is an active presence defining the image through a gaze in motion. Every position reveals a new perspective, a hidden dimension, a vertex that reconfigures the work in its totality.
Located at the entrance to the display of the Moderno’s Collection, in conversation with keystone works of Argentinian geometric abstraction, Miño’s pieces offer a rare and profound exploration of the uncertainty intrinsic to space itself. Straddling reality and fiction, his seductive images expand our possibilities of perception and invite us to discover the true dimension of geometric shapes as they are: infinite.
Curated by: Raúl Flores
Production: Edgar Lacombe
Jorge Miño (Corrientes, 1973) trained under Alejandro Kuropatwa, Martín Weber, Alberto Goldenstein and in other workshops, such as the Contemporary Photography workshop at MALBA-Jumex, headed by Pablo Vargas Lugo. He took part in the Intercampos residency programme, guided by Victoria Noorthoorn, Dino Bruzzone and Patricia Hakim.
Highlights of his past shows include: El umbral invisible: donde los finales se vuelven comienzo [The Invisible Threshold: Where Endings Become Beginnings], curated by Gabriela Urtiaga (Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2015); Todo lo que ha existido perdurará en la eternidad [Everything That Has Existed Lingers in Eternity] (Dot Fiftyone Gallery, Miami, United States, 2016); Volúmenes del vacío [Volume of Emptiness] (Praxis Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016); Al mismo tiempo, todo, en todos lados [At the Same Time, Everything, Everywhere] (Ungallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2022); Vestigios de lo concreto [Vestiges of the Concrete] (Arthaus, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2023); ¿Y si la forma no fuera un límite? [What if Shape Was Not a Limit?] (Galería Enlace Art, Lima, Perú, 2024); and Perfectly Synchronized Movements (Lois Lambert Gallery, Los Angeles, United States, 2024).
He has also taken part in group exhibitions, including Haussmannization (Dot Fiftyone Gallery, Miami, United States, 2014); Huella [Print] (Tecnópolis, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016); Borges, ficciones de un tiempo infinito [Borges, Fictions of an Infinite Time] (CCK, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016); Enigma da Visão [Enigma of Vision], curated by Massimo Scaringella and Luiz Carlos Brugnera (Museu de Arte de Cascavel, Cascavel, Brazil, 2018); Relazioni Estetiche [Aesthetics Relations], curated by Massimo Scaringella (Villam, Reggia di Caserta, Italy, 2018); Fronteiras em Aberto [Open Borders] (14th Curitiba Biennial, Brazil, 2019); Laberintos [Labyrinths] (Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2022); and Modelo para armar [Assembly Model] (Casa Argentina, Roma, Italy, 2023).
He was awarded the 3rd Banco Itaú Prize, Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2010. In 2011, he received a grant from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes and a Jury Mention at the National Photography Exhibition. He won the 2nd Prize at Repsol–Lima Photo 2013 and also received the Gold Medal for an installation at Casa Foa, produced together with Estudio Martín Zanotti. He won the 2nd Prize at the 3rd Fundación Arte x Arte Photography Biennial in 2015. In 2018, he published his first book of his work, Transversal, in collaboration with Argentinian writer and essayist Marcelo Cohen. He lives and works in Buenos Aires.