The Wave
El Cardo Azul (The Blue Thistle), Cabo de Gata Natural Park, Almería, Spain
Belén Millán, 2023, outdoor installation with recycled plastics, dead tree trunk, natural thistles, dimensions variable, image © 2023, courtesy of the artist
Belén Millán
Belén Millán is a Spanish-American multi-media artist. The climate crisis and its extreme consequences in her own backyard moved her out of her studio into the outdoors, where she creates bold installations that she documents in photography and video.
Since 2020, Belén has focused her artistic research and vision on the intrusion of microplastics into nature and human beings. Belén will be presenting (IN)visible, her third art video in a trilogy dedicated to giving visibility to microplastics. Her first video, Plastic Plasma, was the recipient of the Ateneo-University of Málaga video award.
Instagram: @belenmillanabstractions and https://belenmillan.com/
Disruption III, Hapgood Wright Forest, Concord, MA
Belén Millán, 2022, outdoor installation with recycled plastics, dead tree vines, and plastic hoses, image © 2022, courtesy of the artist
Híbrida, La Concepción Botanical Garden, Malaga, Spain
Belén Millán, 2021, indoor installation, dead Victoria Cruzianas, and tree branches with recycled plastics, image © 2021, courtesy of the artist
Cerro de Arias, Casabermeja, Málaga, Spain
Belén Millán, 2020, outdoor intervention with recycled textiles and wires, almond trees, image © 2020, courtesy of the artist
Plastic Plasma
Belén Millán, 2022, filmed in Hapgood Wright Forest, Concord, MA, USA, image © 2022, courtesy of the artist
Blue Thistle
Belén Millán, 2023, filmed in Casabermeja (Málaga), Cabo de Gata (Almería) and La Herradura (Granada), Spain, image © 2023, courtesy of the artist