STEPH GUILLÉN · ARTIST & PHD RESEARCHER
THE
UNCIVILIZED
ARTIST.
Art as resistance.
Art as witness.
A refusal to call domination progress.
The world is not a resource. Neither are we.
For artists, activists, and ecological thinkers.Objects. Encounters. Acts of refusal.
Selected work
Recent work · Full composition ↗The Violence of Separation
Mixed media · 2026
Anthropocene Reliquaries
Discarded containers. Reclaimed materials. Material witness.
Artworks and material investigationsFrom the studio archive
Objects, encounters, and more-than-human relationships.
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Materials are political. Found objects, waste, and reused paper can interrupt the demand to consume and make the residues of extraction visible. Anthropocene Reliquaries holds this question through seventeen vessels: Offerings from the Age of Waste.
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Art records grief, anger, tenderness, beauty, and contradiction amid modernity’s unraveling. The Violence of Separation opens an inquiry into the boundaries we impose. The work can hold lived experience without becoming an illustration of a theory.
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Who can afford to refuse? What histories travel inside a material? What do my tools, purchases, and exhibitions reproduce? Arts-based critical autoethnography keeps these questions open. This scholarly reflection belongs beside the making; it need not be depicted in every artwork.