Argentinian artist, Jorge Miño reshapes ordinary architectural photography, converting static images into something entirely new and subjective, and creating visual texture so that his photographs resemble both charcoal drawings and paintings.

*Untitled #9*, photography, digital printing, 56” x 73.25”” framed

Using his cell phone camera, Miño captures certain architectural elements and then alters them through various digital processes so that they become unrecognizable. He isolates, duplicates, overlaps, stipples, and dilutes these images to produce a nearly abstract formal investigation. Juxtaposed flat planes unfold in infinite directions, rupturing the previous cohesive composition and revealing a plurality of space and multiplicity of form.

*Untitled #10*, photography, digital printing, 55.25” x 81.25” framed

Miño transforms the photographic representation from a unified, memento mori into a poetic transgression in order to engender alternative experiences. The composition has resonances of the familiar as it becomes an amalgamation of contrasting forms abutting one another on a seemingly flat surface. Miño’s work becomes an object, existing within and outside of real time and space, allowing the viewers to take part in the unfolding of experimental and poetic universes.

*Untitled #5*, photography, digital printing, 73.25” x 61.75” framed

Miño deliberately reduces some areas of the image to low resolution, producing pixels that help to achieve a painterly effect, while keeping other areas sharp and clear to highlight the architectural elements. The striking colors are added in post-production, lending passion and power to the emotional impact of the piece.

*Untitled #8,* photography, digital printing, 73” x 58” framed

While creating his artwork, Miño seeks to break many traditional boundaries of photography. He strays from the idea that a photograph is a single moment frozen in time, depicting one clear subject and existing within a rectangular frame.

*Untitled #7*, photography, digital printing, 53.5” x 72.5” framed

For Miño, these works represent infinite moments, multiple dimensions, and endless possibilities. “I create a world of possibilities only for those who are open to find it in my works. I want people to discover new meanings in each piece, to walk through it and let themselves be carried away by the images that they see.”

*Untitled #11*, photography, digital printing, 54” x 81.25” framed

Miño liberates himself from the technical aspect of photography to investigate and push the creative boundaries and possibilities of the medium, seeking to deconstruct and reconstruct his perception of the world. Miño orchestrates the “destabilization of spaces to unleash imagination.”

*Untitled #6*, photography, digital printing, 73” x 58” framed

Breaking into the image with off-kilter and rule-breaking structures, Miño creates room for forms and colors to merge. Sharp, geometric lines exist alongside colors that have been blurred by low resolution. Pixels join pixels, making impressionistic waves of color.

*Untitled #1*, photography, digital printing, 20.25” x 16.25” framed

*Untitled #2*, photography, digital printing, 20.25” x 16.25” framed

*Untitled #3*, photography, digital printing, 20.25” x 16.25” framed

*Untitled #4*, photography, digital printing, 20.25” x 16.25” framed

Jorge Miño (b. 1973, Corrientes, Argentina) studied printmaking at the Escuela Superior de Arte Carlos Mores and assisted artist Guillermo Kuitca for nearly 24 years. Miño has exhibited his work at the Biennial of Curitiba (Brazil), Centro Cultural España (Buenos Aires), Museo de Arquitectura de Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Museo Macay (Mérida, Mexico), Enlace Gallery (Lima), and Fifty One Gallery (Miami), as well as many other galleries in the U.S. and abroad.