Miguel Kuan | UNTITLED, Art Miami Beach 2022 | Sección NEST

Miguel Kuan is a Colombian sound and plastic artist. His artistic practice encompasses an ample set of materialities and techniques, ranging from sound installations and multimedia assemblages, to electro-mechanical objects and participative actions. He explores the impacts of overproduction, industrial processes, and pollution upon ecosystems and contemporary societies, pointing towards the abundance of electronic devices, industrial materials, obsolete technologies, waste and multimedia saturations within urban environments. Kuan carries out a field research methodology in order to gather information, materials, objects, and video and sound recordings which he later incorporates into his artworks.

As a result of his research and creation process, artworks elaborated by Kuan consist of assemblages that integrate obsolete devices, electronic scraps, plastics, and multiple found objects, constituting incisive observations on the social and environmental consequences of mass industrial production and consumerism. His artworks reflect about both material and immaterial phenomena, composing multisensorial installations that both conceptually and aesthetically comprise analytical standpoints towards the acritical acceptance of ever-growing production and consumption dynamics in a market-driven world. Miguel Kuan’s artworks have been exhibited at the Stenersen Museum (Norway), the Passerelle Centre d’art Contemporain (France), the Paço da Liberdade (Brasil), and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Bogotá (Colombia), among others.