miguel soares

Revisão da Matéria Dada. Group Show.
Curated by José Mário Brandão.
Galeria Graça Brandão, Lisbon.
Nov, 25th, 2017 > Jan, 2018

exhibited work:
Place in Time (2005)

Project for Arte de Furtar, edited by Stolen Books.
reedition of a 1652 book.
4 pages from a 8 page project.

pg 1,2.

pg 3, 4.

I was a guest artist at Pedro Henriques’ Fasting solo show in Prague.
curated by: Markéta Stará Condeixa.
Oct, 18th, 2017, Jan, 7th 2018.
National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic.
+info:http://www.ngprague.cz/en/exposition-detail/pedro-henriques-fasting/

exhibited work:
aabbcc2 animation

Fasting, Pedro Henriques, Miguel Soares (Exhibition Guest), 2017,
Installation view, National Gallery Prague, Photo: Radek Brousil.

aabbcc2 animation stills.

O Colégio das artes em Directo do Museu de Arte Antiga.
Book.
Sept 22 , 2017, 6PM.
Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon.
Curated by António Olaio.

Image on the left page: “Pentecostes”, Josefa d’Ayalla (Josefa de Óbidos),  ~1650-1660.

A Arte como Experiência do Real
Coleção de Ivo Martins em Depósito no Museu de Serralves
29 junho a 15 outubro 2017.
Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães (CIAJG), Guimarães.
curated by Nuno Faria.

exhibited:
a selection of 3D animations.

+info:http://www.ciajg.pt/_a_arte_como_experiencia_do_real&ct=602&mop=27

Rrevolução.
Jun, 24th > Oct, 31st, 2017.
Colégio das Artes, Coimbra.
Curated by António Olaio, Pedro Pousada.

Posters comemorating 100 years of the Russian Revolution.

study for poster.

poster catalogue.

poster detail.

exhibition view. photo: Nuno Coelho.

INPUT 6417
Apr 6 > May, 2017
Galeria da Escola das Artes
Universidade Católica do Porto, Porto.
curated by: Baltazar Torres.

Exhibited works:
Wabane
Science Fair
White Star
Naso

Tempo perdido no porto #3: Miguel Soares.
Mar 11th, 2017.
Kunstraum, London.
Curated by Thomas Cuckle and Alexandre Estrela.

exhibited works:
Wabane
Science Fair
White Star
Naso

poster: Ana Baliza.

Tempo perdido no porto #3: Miguel Soares
Feb 11 > 18, 2017.
Oporto Lisboa
Calçada Salvador Correia de Sá, nº 42 2º frente, 1200-399 Lisbon.

exhibited works:
Wabane
Science Fair
White Star
Naso

Tempo perdido no porto # 3
Miguel Soares

It was in 1998, during the Siggraph Symposium, that Paul Debevec introduced a method for integrating synthetic objects into “real-world” images. In his communication, Debevec revealed the secret of extracting light from any environment and rendering objects into this light. This simple method used a mirrored ball placed in the center of a space, which was photographed in a high dynamic range of light (HDR). By combining the resulting multiple-exposure images, Debevec created a single concave image, which functioned as an omnidirectional radiation map of the space. The HDR contained all necessary data to merge any alien object into
a pre-existing background.
Today we can see a good amount of HDR images on the internet, as empty scenarios longing for objects. In 2008, Miguel Soares used an HDR image of a Japanese interior as a starting point for his 3D animation wabane. Here the artist brilliantly inverted Paul Debevec’s process and, instead of inserting a common object in the light of an HDR scenario, he placed in it a floating moving mirror that changes shape according to sound. Wabane presents a shining post-apocalyptic living mirror that reflects, in its ever-changing curved surface, the void of an abandoned room.
After a residency period in Oporto, Miguel Soares will finally give us the opportunity of watching his HDR masterpiece, by far the video that best fits Oporto’s dimmed/doomed atmosphere. Along with wabane we will also be exhibiting white star, science fair and his latest video, naso. This selection of very short animations, or videos from a music album, as Soares refers to them, reveal carefully designed landscapes, digital terrariums optimized for the study of unknown creatures and things, entities that live and die to the laws of sound and nostalgia.
curated by Alexandre Estrela.

silkscreen, edition of 18. prints by Mike Goes West.

3 animations on the upper floor.

ground floor.

Portugal Portugueses
curated by: Emanoel Araújo.
sept 8th, 2016 > Jan 8th 2017.
Museu Afro Brasil,
São Paulo, Brasil.

exhibited works:
SpaceJunk
H20
2048

Photos: Henrique Luz.