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THE DESIGNER
Migdalia Salazar is an artist interested in interior and furniture design. As an artist, she has explored the limits between art media and concepts. Nurtured by the constructivist art tradition, Salazar produces artworks composed of modular geometrical structures made of acrylic. Initially, she photographs architecture and fragments the images as planes of color that she combines with these structures. Abstract and representative, her work defies the borders between photography and sculpture, being both simultaneously.
The bookcase SAPERE embodies meticulous furniture design principles, joining a refined look to a practical installation. The artist-designer has applied her artistic poetic and practice to the conception and production of a sophisticated and functional bookcase that is also a unique piece of contemporary interior design.
She also uses transparent acrylic in the bookcase, which is the sculptural material featured in her artwork. Below, we have included some samples.
FROM THE ECHOES SERIES, 2017-2018
Transparent acrylic and photographs
From left to right:
Echo #1; 69 x 53 x 3 inches. | Echo #2; 69 x 53 x 3 inches.
Echo Wine; 69 x 53 x 3 inches. | Blue Echo; 45 x 45 x 3 inches.
Exploring the potentiality of color and geometrical forms in contemporary art practice, the artist connects the longtime tradition of the reticular structure to her research on photography as a medium to produce new pictorial perceptions. In these artworks, color is the result of a physical experimentation with water, pigments, and the effects of the combined processes of refraction - reflection.
FROM THE CHROMATIC STROLLS SERIES, 2018-2019
Transparent acrylic and photographs
From left to right:
Untitled #1; 48 x 64 x 3.5 inches. | Untitled #3; 36 x 38 x 4 inches.
Untitled #5; 17 x 16 x 16 inches. | Staff; 48 x 82 x 3.5 inches.
In Chromatic Strolls Salazar has also continued her early research on fragmentation and deconstruction. She has turned on her constructive photographic point of interest to the stripe as a type of piece able to lighting the primary combination of patterns, colors, and rhythms corresponding to complex formations. In this series, the artist has concentrated her regard on Miami emblematic architectures.
DECONSTRUCTING STORRS, 2023-2024
One piece composed of 4 structures.
Transparent acrylic; 38 x 26 x 6 inches.
The current artist's work revisits and deconstructs the historical art-deco trend. She intends to find a contemporary gaze able to reconnect the gorgeous look of the past deco to the critical present.
