Miguel Rothschild

Miguel Rothschild develops a practice spanning photography, video, installation and collage, drawing on iconographies from Western art history — from the Renaissance to modernism and German Romanticism. His work revolves around repetitive and meticulous interventions on produced or appropriated images: burning, perforating, cutting, or embedding. Through these operations, the image is approached as a material site in which light, colour, and smoke acquire presence and enter into relation with space. References to the sublime or the sacred are often inflected with humour, while ordinary materials challenge the relationships between image, matter, and symbolism.