Jaume MILLET

Barcelona, 1958

 When observing the work of Jaume Millet (Barcelona, 1958), one might initially think he is an artist devoted to recycling old wood, glass, and fragments of ruins. Yet this would be an incomplete view. For Millet, time is the central thread guiding his creative thought.

The artist turns to 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 endured into the present. These vestiges of an absent world, detached from their original function and forgotten in their past, confront the viewer and transform them into witnesses of a lost time. Through the transparency of layered color and glass, this temporal distance becomes perceptible.

His creative process is defined by the accumulation of layers of paint, as well as by a shift in the conception of time—from something external and chronological to something internal and experiential.