Carlier | gebauer is pleased to announce St. Martin & the Echo, Nicole Miller’s third solo exhibition at the gallery in Berlin.
For this exhibition, Miller presents an archival work alongside new pieces. In her words, “This show is part eulogy, ecstatic grief, fecund longing, the palimpsest of family legacy, a meditation as inheritance, the reoccurrence of a theme, chiral, the mirror image of a twin, the transmutation of death into signification, and a belief in magic”.
Miller draws on deeply personal and intimate moments to approach a fundamentally human experience: the destabilising event of the loss of kinfolk. The notion of transmutation is central to Miller’s work, as a concept but also a physical condition. This is especially reflected in her choice of medium, the laser light installation. The laser beam itself is constituted by a transformation of audio waves into light waves, endlessly ceasing to be one thing and becoming another, as the viewer watches the light appear and vanish.