Miguel Angel Carrera

The sculptures of Miguel Ángel Meléndez Carrera have a quality that is difficult to name but immediately felt: they look as though they arrived from somewhere slightly outside of time. Working with traditional ceramic aggregates alongside biodegradable polymers, he produces objects that are simultaneously ancient in their material logic and entirely contemporary in their formal proposition. 

His formation is unusually wide — painting, art history, and social anthropology at the Universidad de Guanajuato, advanced work at the Centro Nacional de las Artes, and a current teaching position at Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico City — and all of it informs the work without being visible in it.

The sculptures do not illustrate ideas. They embody a particular relationship to fragility, permanence, and the strange dignity of objects that hold their shape while referencing their own eventual dissolution. For a residential or hospitality space that requires a sculptural object with genuine conceptual weight, Meléndez Carrera is among the most compelling voices of his generation. His work has a consistent presence at Zona Maco and at international design fairs across Europe and the Americas.