Goodbye to All That
MIGUEL PUYAT
Miguel Puyat, Watching the Sun Move From My Window, 2020, Found wood, found frame, cardboard cutouts, nuts & bolts, 9 x 7 x 3 in (22.86 x 17.78 x 7.62 cm)
Miguel Puyat (b. 1993, Philippines) is an interdisciplinary artist who works with installations, sculptures, drawings, printmaking, ceramics, textile, and new media. His practice embodies the principal focus of Process Art, where the actions and steps in the production of art is far more important than the form or the object. Puyat explores a range of narratives that hint at existentialism, nostalgia, urban tribes, and subcultures as he examines the transformation, improvisation, and re-configuration of materials, sound, and images. Since 2011, he has exhibited extensively in different art spaces in Manila including Artinformal, West Gallery, Mono8 Gallery, Underground Gallery, and Altro Mondo. Puyat studied Fine Arts (Painting) at the University of the Philippines, Diliman and completed an artist residency from Light and Space Contemporary through their LSC-AIR program in 2013.
“Like the title suggests, my work represents a sun (composed of moveable cardboard cutouts that you can also rotate), upcycled wood and frame as an opening and a closing window. You can play with the work by opening it and rotating the movable parts and try forming different figures and forms. Like the sun, sunset/sunrise (half circle), the crescent moon, or whatever you can see and interpret with what you composed. A circular motion like a cloc that represents time, or a cycle of what we experience everyday with the sunrise and sunset. I guess this is myself witnessing everything happening so fast, ready for it to be over, and hoping for a better tomorrow. ”
