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Regina de Miguel
Arbustos de nervios como bosques de coral, 2020
Astro lacustre, 2021, Mater Suspiriorum, 2022, Abrazo Simbionte, 2022

Installation view: Abundant Futures. Works from the TBA21 Collection, Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía C3A, Córdoba, Spain, 2022, Regina de Miguel, Arbustos de nervios como bosques de coral 01 , 2020, Photo: Rafael Suarez | TBA21

Astro Lacustre, 2021
Mater Suspiriorum, 2022
Photo: Roberto Ruiz

Arbustos de nervios como bosques de coral 07, 2020
Arbustos de nervios como bosques de coral 01, 2020
Photo: Roberto Ruiz

Regina de Miguel

Collection

Abundant Futures

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Nerve Bushes Like Coral Forests 01, 2020
Nerve Bushes Like Coral Forests 07, 2020
Watercolor, gouache, and pencils on paper
55.5 x 43.5 cm (framed)

Lacustrine Star, 2021
Acrylic on board
80 x 60 cm

Mater suspiriorum, 2022
Mixed media on wood

Symbiote Hug, 2022
Aquarelle, gouache, and pencil on paper
46 x 53 (framed)
Commissioned by TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary for the exhibition “Abundant Futures” at the C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba, April 1, 2022–March 5, 2023, curated by Daniela Zyman

Multispecies holobionts with the nervous system of a cuttlefish, corals, parts of fungi, flowers, insects, pottery, masks, necklaces, and cosmic representations—these are some of the organisms and animistic objects inhabiting Regina de Miguel’s works. A holobiont, as theorized by the biologist Lynn Margulis, is an assemblage of many species living together to form ecological systems, often in symbiosis or any other form of cooperation. It embodies and exemplifies the interrelatedness of all organic and nonorganic matter. In the series of watercolors and paintings, microbial and human-made agencies are thoroughly entangled and confused and form animistic totems that express the interdependence of all matter.

These works are part of a group of paintings originating in an eco-science-fiction story de Miguel wrote in 2020. In this futuristic tale, set in a world in which humans have colonized space, the main character is a biologist whose research on alien archeology takes place on a planet called Exile. She lives by a swamp and describes and paints the mutant life forms that surround her. The mythopoeic swamp shifts from a site of cohabitation and multiplicity, fomenting the dilemmas of nostalgia, to an interface from which to talk to comets, convene a meeting of suicides, or dream of intoxicated waters. Then, the outbreak of a virus forces her into confinement in a hotel, where she wanders around the grounds in isolation, observing the hybrids between birds and insects and the mutant vegetal species while reflecting on the link between cosmic chemistry and terrestrial epidemics.

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Group exhibition: Abundant Futures
Venue: C3A Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Córdoba
Curator: Daniela Zyman
Exhibition 1 April 2022 - 5 March 2023

Monographic program dedicated to the artist Regina de Miguel on the occasion of her exhibition 'Soy parte de esa frontera fracturada' at C33A, Córdoba, 2018.

"Charla con Regina de Miguel y Patricia Domínguez / TODO SISTEMA TIENE UN ORDEN," YouTube Video, Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo Comunidad de Madrid, 2017

"Resilient Geologies," podcast, Regina de Miguel, prodiuced by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, TBA21, st_age

Jean-Christophe Simon, Julian R. Marchesi, Christophe Mougel & Marc-André Selosse, “Host-microbiota interactions: from holobiont theory to analysis,” in Microbiome 7, (2019): 5

Adrian Stencel & Dominika M. Wloch-Salamon, “Some theoretical insights into the hologenome theory of evolution and the role of microbes in speciation,” in Theory Biosci., 137 (2018): 197-206

Jan Baedke, Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda & Abigail Nieves Delgado, “The Holobiont concept before Margulis,” in Journal of Experimental Zoology Part B: Molecular and Developmental Evolution, 334 (2020): 149-155

Oskari Sivula, “The Cosmic Significance of Directed Panspermia: Should Humanity Spread Life to Other Solar Systems?,” in Utilitas (2022): 1-17.

Samuel R. Levin, Thomas W. Scott, Helen S. Cooper & Stuart A. West, “Darwin’s aliens,” in International Journal of Astrobiology 0 (2017): 1-9

Artists Website

http://reginademiguel.net

Born in Málaga, Spain, in 1977. Lives in Berlin, Germany.

Regina de MiguelArbustos de nervios como bosques de coral, 2020Astro lacustre, 2021, Mater Suspiriorum, 2022, Abrazo Simbionte, 2022

Regina de Miguel
Arbustos de nervios como bosques de coral, 2020
Astro lacustre, 2021, Mater Suspiriorum, 2022, Abrazo Simbionte, 2022