The author of a body of work that combines installation, appropriation and the transformation of objects, Miguel Palma uses the narratives and icons of classical modernity to reflect on the changing contemporary world. Hence his fascination with machines and technology in general, and his interest in how they have influenced the life of modern humankind. Through an almost obsessive work of collecting and manipulating materials, the artist reinvents objects and creates new images of the world, in a fantastic universe that, inhabited by devices, opens up to poetic, playful, cultural or even political narratives.
In this work there is a certain purification of the intervention process and the re-signification of the pre-existing object through a deliberate play of appearances and references: the projection screen, where the word Fim(End) stands out in paint, appears as a simulacrum of a cinematographic frame, hinting at the conclusion of a narrative or an event (real or fictionalised). Although with an obvious note of humour or irony, which characterises much of his work, Miguel Palma puts the viewer in a somewhat uncomfortable position by confronting them with a physical barrier that is, at the same time, the materialisation of the intangible, with allusions to memory, temporality, the link between past and present – in short, forcing them to confront the subjectivity and ephemerality of existence.