Miriam Salado, Detonaciones, 2024
Miriam Salado, Detonaciones, 2024
Miriam Salado, boceto para Detonaciones, 2023
Miriam Salado
(Hermosillo, Sonora, México, 1987)
Visual artist who largely works with drawing and sculpture, with an interest in land-related as well as desert-theft issues in Mexico. The artist participated in the SOMA educational project’s contemporary art strategies and production processes program and completed a plastic arts BA at the Universidad de Sonora. She has been the subject of seven different solo shows, specifically Bestial, from 2022; 2019’s Cascabel; Estío (2018); Paisaje negro (2017); Memoria devastada (2017), Detritos. Vestigios de la arena, presented in 2016; and 2013’s El cártel de los pesados. Work from 2018 at M 74, a Mexico City sculptural space; Con aire popular at Madrid’s Casa de México, in 2020; Tierra ignota at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Querétaro, 2020; and Separated by Borders at Tucson, Arizona’s Pima Louis Carlos Bernal Gallery, from 2019, figured among the artist’s most notable recent collective exhibitions. She is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte.
Detonaciones, 2024
Engine, metal structure, leather, recovered firearm casings, and PLA-CF 3D prints
Miriam Salado’s practice explores human interventions in nature. In archaeological exercises, Salado works with materials found while exploring landscapes (primarily, Sonoran ones) and synthesizes experiences that occur within that same environment as an installation. Through drawing and sculpture, she addresses relationships between identity, cultural production, and the illicit, starting with a local context and echoing globally. Detonaciones consists of a mechanical totem covered in leather and recovered firearm casings. Through movement and sound, this hybrid work explores armor, threats, predators, and animals.
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