Jaume Millet

By observing the work of Jaume Millet (Barcelona, 1958), one might first think that he is an artist dedicated to recycling old wood, glass, and fragments of ruins. However, this reading only partially accounts for his work. For Millet, time constitutes the guiding thread of his entire artistic approach.

The artist turns to the ruins not simply as materials, but as a means of revealing that the viewer is no longer contemporary with the traces they observe — traces that have traversed time to us. These vestiges of a vanished world, detached from their original function and forgotten by history, call upon the viewer and transform them into a witness of a lost time. Through the transparency of the layers of color and glass, this temporal distance becomes perceptible.

His creative process is characterized by the accumulation of layers of paint, as well as by a shift in the conception of time: from an external and chronological reality to an internal and sensory experience.