His education has been influenced by the Bauhaus and the new Swiss typographic style. He studied at the Basel School of Design. Subsequently completed a Masters in Fine Arts at Rhode Island School of Design in Providence. For several years has been living and working in New York, and after his return to Spain he continued his studies in photography, completing a Master of Art in Photography at the European Institute of Design in Madrid (IED), and numerous international photography workshops.

Some of the most prominent spaces where he has shown his work are: RISD Museum of Art, Providence; Venice Arsenale; PhotoEspaña festival, Madrid; Valentin de Madariaga Foundation, Seville; TEA Museum, Tenerife; and Cultural Center of Jesus, Ibiza.

Aura Revealed

Aura is the Greek goddess of the breeze, her virtue is to be as swift as the wind. Aura flows, moves fast, generates a positive vibration around her: she is the paradigm of the contemporary woman in the context of today's fast-paced society. The way to represent this power that, also, protects and exalts, is through the veil, an element that alludes to the celestial dome and the separation between the upper and lower worlds [1].The role of the veil is equivalent to the firmament that divides the material and spiritual worlds. Therefore, removing veils or garments and stripping off ornaments are gestures that are associated with the search for truth. To speak of the transformative power of feminine values, Miguel Soler-Roig travels to Greece and uses mythology as a set of stories based on the imagination that explain the universe and activate the power of individuals. In a way, myths are an altered and pseudo oneiric version of reality. In dreams everything is possible: people acquire superhuman powers, the natural becomes supernatural, the weak becomes powerful... There is a sort of inversion of contexts and scenarios. In short, another version of the real, more exciting, exotic, magical and surprising.

Nostalgic Memory of my Life before Birth

This is an ongoing project based on historical biographical events that I have mixed to generate several photographic stories. Halfway between reality and fiction, they materialized in black and white photographs, in which various characters from another era are represented.

The result is a tree of connections in the world of art, literature, fashion and high society that extends through the 20th century for several generations. The work is a reinterpretation of a period lived by my grandfather, Dr. Soler-Roig (1902-1999), who established multiple relationships, more or less direct, with patients, colleagues, friends, family ... A network of connections that allows me to delve into his world and create a series of experiences that bring us unprecedented perspectives.

Through these images I recreate invisible stories: moments, experiences, memories of a past time that allow me to reopen the scars of experiences that only its protagonists lived. The viewer becomes an accomplice to a journey into the past: If our memories were capable of recovering everything we had lived, nostalgia wouldn’t be necessary.

In Nostalgic memory of my life before birth I recover the brightness of a time gone by and bring to the present my interpretation of lights and shadows from different relational angles.

Out of Silence

In the late summer of 2016, Miguel Soler-Roig travelled to one of the most inaccessible regions of Tibet to hear the first words of a Lama who maintained for three years a vow of silence. In Eastern cultures, they are much more aware of the necessity to practice the inward gaze. Silence allows the mind stillness and the discovery of the essence which shapes us.

The artist accompanies the Lama in his daily wanderings, sharing a spiritual life that manifests itself in each small action and in the way of relating to the world. Through the photographs he shows us his daily occupations -prayers, repetition of mantras, meditations, visits to the temple- and his immediate surroundings: the mysticism of the landscapes of Dzogchen in the ancient Kingdom of Kham, the humility and commitment of his people and the idiosyncrasy of a culture linked to the transcendent. The images express this philosophy through veiled symbols and visual metaphors. Stillness and darkness refer to silence, light and movement upon awakening, the path to the course of learning ...

The key symbols of the photographs culminate in an overwhelming way in a videographic artwork. A curtain of smoke gives way to the chants of the lama singing his first words in a mantra. The transition from darkness to light is equated with the experimentation of the Bardos or intermediate states: the first one or Chikhai Bardo. This phase is what happens at the moment of death, when consciousness withdraws from the senses; one no longer hears or sees anything, everything becomes blurred until it vanishes. The video shows the continuous cycle that originates and extinguishes at this point through a process of teaching and learning in which the Lama enters into communion with nature, involving the viewer. The parchment that accompanies it constitutes his first testimony after having been purified in the doctrine of silence. The spontaneity and freshness of its most immediate inspiration reflected on paper. Miguel Soler-Roig proposes an experience of introversion to feel peace of mind and imbue in the deep mysticism of the whole photographic series.