No Way Out, an exhibition by Miguel Angel Rios at Röda Stern Konsthall Gothenburg, Sweden

The Röda Roda Stern Konsthall presents a solo exhibition by Miguel Angel Rios, composed of six videos where stories involving landscapes, animals and objects symbolically articulate and comment upon current geopolitical issues such as immigration, trafficking, poverty, ideas of progress, despair and violence. The show will be on view until August 4, 2019. In the 1970s, Miguel Angel Ríos escaped the military dictatorship in Argentina and emigrated to Mexico and the United States. Central to many of his works is the critique of manmade divisions, borders and discrimination. No Way Out includes the following video works: White Stones [2014]; Landlocked [2014] pursues the desire to reach the other side; Mules [2014]; The Ghost of Modernity (Leached) [2012] and The Ghost of Modernity (The Three Marias) [2012], in both videos a transparent cube floats above a landfill, revealing the contradictions inherent in the project of modernity and Mecha (Wick) [2010]. Miguel Angel Ríos was born 1943 in Catamarca, Argentina. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Since the early 2000s, Ríos has delved into the medium of video, creating symbolic narratives about human experience, violence and mortality.