Miguel Soler-Roig (Barcelona, 1961) by Oliver Orest Tschirky Miguel Soler-Roig is a conceptual artist and perfectionist photographer. Following his thoughts and beliefs, he carefully selects, elaborates and develops the concepts of his photographic series. His objective as a photographer is not so much to search for the decisive moment as to work on a conceptual base and sophisticated compositions. With his images, he investigates the ideas behind things, focusing his attention on the consciousness of life and memories, especially those of his youth. The resulting series of images are like extracts from an ongoing story, frozen in time, like the symbolic Spanish still lifes of the 17th century or a storyboard from a film. Aesthetically he is very selective, makes few captures, only allows certain locations, uses natural light, an adequate perspective and does not elaborate the final image in postproduction. Through this elaborate scenography, framing and lighting, he emphasizes the control of the scene and the social landscape. His photographs are neither documentaries nor fictitious, but a synthesis of narrative and biographical elements. Therefore, his works are like an intensive school of seeing, because their purpose is neither only the visual nor the fictitious, but the spectator's sensation achieved through ambiguous perception. Thanks to the touching emotions of his images, the viewer begins to believe that they can be part of their memories or be part of a previous life. Miguel Soler-Roig is a philosopher, walking through the world with his eyes and senses wide open. His field of study are the echos or more precisely, the nostalgia and tacit identity, the individuality and consciousness of the human being. This nostalgia describes a longing for past and many other unlived experiences. Because art always flies over our existence, Miguel Soler-Roig pursues to make it visible the essence of life. He builds a statement from the memories of his childhood, based on the desire for harmony and order, allusions to a collective memory, halfway between happiness, charm and oblivion. With the lasting captures of consciousness, memories and reverie, he invents a symbolic transition between past and future to improve the present, selecting and idealizing his memories to make life more habitable. His belief in positive, reflective and individual freedom makes him dream of a better world: harmony, humanity, eternal values and -of course- nostalgia as an element of connection. As a world citizen and humanist, he acclimatizes to any environment, lives together with different cultures and speaks somehow all languages, as if he had experienced the Grand Tour. A restless thinker, he analyses our time, the world, the society and the own, in a reflective and responsible way, always with the intention of sharing and giving to the audience a positive stimulus. As an artist, he is able to bring out the best even from the adverse; he takes advantage on crisis to trigger creativity and the foundations for phoenix. In his beginnings, he was a graphic designer and communicator of ideas. As a creator, he captures the fleeting reflections of the moment, involves history and meaning, synchronizes the past with the present, creates nostalgia in a positive sense without regrets, and makes us involved witnesses - here and now in front of his artworks. Miguel Soler-Roig is, above all, a contemporary artist. Why? Because great artists are sensors and mirrors. This means that they observe the world, extract with sensitivity the elementary aspects and possess the impulse and the professional means necessary to express the reflections and transmit them to others. Great art does not have an implicit purpose or a specific function, but it nourishes our thoughts and senses, expands our perspectives and knowledge, enriches our minds. And great works of art touch our raison d'être and can never be understood conclusively. Miguel Soler-Roig perfectly fulfills all three conditions. To do so, he generates narratives halfway between reality and fiction, transforms personal, subjective and intimate perspectives into common consciousness, materializes his concerns in photographic series and presents them through international exhibitions. Furthermore,

photography is said to be the art of our time because it records the human condition with greater accuracy and speed than any other artistic medium. In this sense, Miguel Soler-Roig's conceptual sequences leave the field of pure visibility, document moments from his past, recur to reminiscences from another era to build the future and make us apprehend human perception and psychological states. With his capacities Miguel Soler-Roig is capable of capturing sensations, portraying consciousness about life and nostalgia, stimulating the memories of the memory even, like his current ongoing project, documenting the nostalgic memory of his life before birth. Miguel Soler-Roig (Barcelona, 1961) His education has been influenced by the Bauhaus and the new Swiss typographic style. He studied at the Basel School of Design. Subsequently completed a Masters in Fine Arts at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. For several years has been living and working in New York, and after his return to Spain he continued his studies in photography, completing a Master of Art in Photography at the European Institute of Design in Madrid (IED), and numerous international photography workshops. Education 1983 Schule für Gestaltung, Basel; Basel School of Design (CH) 1987 MFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island, Providence (USA) 2010 MA in Photography, European Institute of Design (IED), Madrid (E) Some of the most prominent spaces where he has shown his work are: RISD Museum of Art, Providence; Paris Photo; AIPAD, New York; TEA Museum, Tenerife; Valentin de Madariaga Foundation, Seville; Benaki Museum, Athens; PhotoEspaña festival, Madrid; Venice Arsenale; Photo London and Cultural Center of Jesus, Ibiza. Selected Solo Exhibitions 2020 Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Amesegënallô 2019 Kraemer Gallery, Paris, joint exhibition with George Condo The Photography Show, AIPAD, New York The Room Studio, Barcelona, Out of Silence 2018 Flux-Zone, Mexico City, Out of Silence The Room Studio, Barcelona, Weightless Waves Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Out of Silence 2017 Emma Molina Gallery, Monterrey, The Ruin of Memory Being 3 Gallery, Beijing, Under the Andalusian Sky 2016 Being 3 Gallery, Beijing, Sceneries for Reverie Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, The Ruin of Memory Blanca Berlin Gallery, Madrid, The Ruin of Memory 2015 Mondo Gallery, Madrid, Logical Ambiguities Society for Photographic Education, Cleveland, Ohio, The Ruin of Memory 2013 Photo España, Madrid, The Great American Nude 2011

Galeria Alejandro Sales, Barcelona, Frontiers without Limits 2010 Missoni, Madrid, Vogue Fashion Night Out Selected Group Exhibitions 2019 Venezia Photo, San Servolo, Venice Cultural Center Jesus, Ibiza, Deserts Waters 2018 Benaki Museum, Athens Photo Festival, Out of Silence Cultural Center Jesus, Ibiza, Animals 2017 Fotonoviembre, Photography Biennial. TEA Museum, Tenerife Antonio Perez Foundation, Cuenca Nacional Museum of Photography, Huete Cultural Center Jesus, Ibiza, Ibicenco II 2016 Paris Photo 2016. J.P. Morgan Chase Collection Valentin de Madariaga Foundation, Seville, Under the Andalusian Sky Photo London, Blanca Berlin Gallery Being3 Gallery, Hudson, NY Cultural Center Jesus, Ibiza, Ibicenco 2015 Lianzhou Foto Festival, China, The Ruin of Memory Photo London, Blanca Berlin Gallery Zona Maco Foto, Mexico City Luis Carulla Foundation, Tarragona, Under the Andalusian Sky Mondo Gallery, Ibiza, Under the Andalusian Sky Segovia Foto Festival, The Great American Nude Arts Libris, Barcelona 2014 Lianzhou Foto Festival, China, Logical Ambiguities Fotofever, Paris, Blanca Berlin Gallery Matadero, Madrid, The Great American Nude 2013 PINTA, New York, Blanca Berlin Gallery Arte Laguna, Venice Arsenale, Longings ABSOLUT Prize, Photo España, Madrid, The Great American Nude 2012 Blanca Berlin Gallery, Madrid, Look, Feel, Collect, with Joaquim Paiva and Tony Catany IED Group Show, Madrid, Stop Suffering JustMad Art Fair, Madrid, Frontiers without Limits Casa Encendida, Madrid, ”Mutant Books”, Stop Suffering 2011 Copenhagen Photo Festival 2010 Madrid Photo, Blanca Berlin Gallery Lisbon Art Fair, Blanca Berlin Gallery 2009

PhotoEspaña Festival, Madrid 1988 American Institute of Graphic Arts, New York 1987 RISD Museum of Art, Providence 1985 Schule für Gestaltung, Basel Museums Benaki Museum, Athens Royal Artistic Circle, Barcelona Luis Carulla Foundation - Vida Rural Museum, Tarragona Casa degli Italiani, Barcelona Valentin de Madariaga Foundation, Seville Cultural Center Jesus, Ibiza TEA Museum, Tenerife Nacional Museum of Photography, Huete Antonio Perez Foundation, Cuenca RISD Museum of Art, Providence Galleries Being 3 Gallery, Beijing Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston Kraemer Gallery, Paris Galeria Emma Molina, Monterrey Flux-Zone, México City Blanca Berlin, Madrid Mondo Galeria, Ibiza Awards 2017 Finalist Passporte Prize for Surreal Photography 2014 Finalist NexoFoto Iberoamerican Photo Prize 2014, Madrid 2013 Honorable mention Photo España ABSOLUT Prize 2013, Madrid 2013 Finalist Arte Laguna Art Prize 12.13, MoCA Italy, Venice (IT) 1987 Award of Excellence “Design for the Public Good 1987,” AIGA, New York 1986 Gerrit Rietveld Academie Award, ICOGRADA International Conference, Amsterdam Works in Collections JP Morgan Chase Art Collection, New York Museum of Fine Arts, Houston RISD Museum, Providence Valentin de Madariaga Foundation, Seville Trilantic Capital, New York Yolanda Santos Collection, Monterrey Private collections: Barcelona, Beijing, Geneva, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mexico, Miami, Paris, and Zürich Books and Publications Amesegënallô, March 2020, Madrid Out of Silence, 2018, Madrid Sand Dreams, 2014, Madrid The Great American Nude, 2013, Madrid Arte Laguna Art Prize 12.13, MoCA Italy, 2013, Venice Projects, European Master of Fine Art Photography, 2012, IED Madrid Stop Suffering, Limited edition artist book, 2012, Madrid Fronteras sin Limites, 2011, Madrid From Time to Time, 2010, Barcelona Bibliography Artnet news Partner Content "Amesegënallô", March 2020, New York

Diario de Ibiza, “Ibicencos IV”, October 2019, Ibiza Artnet news Partner Content "Atlantis & Posidonia", May 2018, New York Artnet news Partner Content "Out of Silence", March 2018, New York Diario de Ibiza, “Ibicencos II”, July 2017, Ibiza ABC, “Under the Andalusian Sky”, June 2016, Seville La Razón, “The Ruins of Memory”, May 2016, Barcelona L’Oeil de la Photographie, “The Ruins of Memory”, March 2016, Paris El Periódico de Cataluña, Desnudos en la Alhambra. October 2015, Barcelona L’Oeil de la Photographie, “Sous un ciel andalou”, September 2015, Paris El Mundo Journal, “Bajo un cielo andaluz”, August 2015, Ibiza