UNDER CONSTRUCTION
My work often begins with photography but ends up drifting into spaces that are often hard to define—where the boundaries of the medium are stretched, questioned, weakened, and placed at the service of an emotional component.
In the hybrid and contradictory nature of my practice, an interest in the physical possibilities of the printed image coexists with a fascination for the dizzying flow of images that constantly redefine the photographic experience and, ultimately, our way of relating to one another.
Faced with this peculiar vulnerability, I use collage as an ecosystem in which to try to stitch together layers, reconcile stimuli, digest information... and find a way for the parts of an often overwhelming whole to coexist and make sense.
Miguel Ángel Tornero -Baeza (Jaén), 1978-
Graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Granada, he currently lives and works in Madrid.
He has undertaken artist residencies at institutions such as the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome (2012/13) and Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin (2010), and has received major photography awards such as the Grünenthal Prize (2011), Purificación García Award (2007), and ABC Photography Prize (2003), as well as the Generaciones Award (2009) for artistic projects and the National Prize for the Best Published Art Book in 2014.
His solo exhibitions include Quemar ramón (2020), the inaugural exhibition of the Juan Silió Gallery’s Madrid space; Sin atajos at the University of Jaén; La noche en balde (2017) at Galería Juan Silió in Santander; Looking Was Serious Work but also a Kind of Intoxication at DA2 in Salamanca (2017); The Random Series – berliner trato, romananzo & madrileño trip at the Biel/Bienne Swiss Photography Festival (2016), at Les Rencontres de la Photographie in Arles and at the Centro de Arte de Alcobendas (2015); and The Random Series – berliner trato (2010) at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin.