San Ildefonso 55 by ANDARÍN/ Presenting Miguel

Casco

This dialogue between inhabiting and intimacy is constructed from the physical-spatial, sociocultural and political Intimacy implies that each person is constructed in the midst of 3 dimensions: physical-spatial, socio-cultural and political-institutional. As a result, each individual inhabits the world in his or her own way and at the same time within the context in which he or she lives.

In San Ildefonso 55 several dimensions of inhabiting can be observed. When Send nudes participants send their nudes to Miguel Casco they not only share the body they inhabit, but also the physical space they are inhabiting at the moment of the photo, both forms of intimacy. Another dimension is found when Casco turns the photographs into paintings, a process that occurs in the intimacy of the studio that the artist inhabits while working. Yet another occurs when the public visits and inhabits the space of San Ildefonso 55.

And who is Miguel Casco?

Miguel Casco (Puebla, 1991). The artist studied a bachelor's degree in Visual Arts and a master's degree in Visual Information Design at the Universidad de las Américas Puebla. His line of research is based on corporal referentiality in pictorial (or visual) illusionism; he deals with nudity, coexistence and censorship as thematic axes in his current production. His work has been exhibited in Mexico, the United States and Germany