Jean-Paul Miller (b. 1989) is an artist living and working in Los Angeles, CA. Miller’s practice subverts industrial methodologies to dissect structures of social control, structures that condition and extract from everyone they reach.

The artist cuts, forms, and welds steel into enclosed volumes for inflation. Cavities and pipes channel pressure to expand the walls of enclosure into a breach, forming hollow steel bodies that weigh heavily in the viewer’s space and body. These works parallel how ruling classes instrumentalize excess, from data centers that burn fossil-fueled grids and drain drought-stricken water reserves to cobalt belts in the Congo and lithium flats in the Atacama that poison land and conscript labor, accumulating beyond their capacity into oblivion.