Artists
Miguel Angel Ríos
In the videos The Ghost of Modernity (Lixiviados) and Piedras Blancas, Miguel Angel Ríos explores the object’s transmissive power. Through images shot on a plateau overlooking a Mexican slum where the desolation evoked by garbage is sometimes interrupted by a human presence, The Ghost of Modernity (Lixiviados) exhibitses the contamination that ensues from the (colonialist) project of modernization, acknowledging the resulting social and environmental violence. Piedras Blancas documents the thunderous descent of three thousand cement spheres down a mountainside. The bodies hurtling down the slope or suffering fatal accidents evoke migratory movements whose pace is too often set by hegemonic systems.
Exhibited work(s):
The Ghost of Modernity (Lixiviados) (2012)
Piedras Blancas (2014)
- Born
- 1943, Catamarca, Argentina
- Country / Nation
- Argentina
- Lives
- Mexico City, Mexico / New York, United States
Works

Miguel Angel Ríos
The Ghost of Modernity (Lixiviados)
2019
Exhibition view, OPTICA, Montréal
Photo credit: Photo credit: Jean-Michael Seminaro
© MOMENTA | Biennale de l’image and OPTICA.

Miguel Angel Ríos
The Ghost of Modernity (Lixiviados)
2012
Video, colour, sound, 5 min 4 s
© Miguel Angel Ríos

Miguel Angel Ríos
Piedras Blancas
2014
Video, colour, sound, 5 min 7 s
© Miguel Angel Ríos