Nicole Miller opens her third solo exhibition at carlier | gebauer in Berlin on Friday 13 November 2026. Titled 'St. Martin & the Echo', the show pairs an archival work with new pieces, including a laser installation and a new video, and treats bereavement as its central subject. Miller describes the exhibition as part eulogy and part meditation on inheritance, built from deeply personal moments in her own family history.

At the heart of the show is a video from 2008 in which Miller filmed her mother's twin brother practising transcendental meditation in his bedroom, sitting cross-legged with his eyes closed. Nearly two decades later, that footage returns as a form of inheritance, an immaterial heirloom. A mirror image in the exhibition addresses the same uncle's physical decline from Parkinson's disease, while a new laser work recalls the family tree that stood in the garden at home and fell recently, a loss that echoes the deaths of two other uncles in the same year. Handwritten words inscribe themselves on the wall in light, only to fade, and the fallen tree reappears as a ghostly projection in full bloom before vanishing into darkness.

Miller took the exhibition's title from Saint Martin de Porres, the 16th-century Lima saint known for his kindness and as the patron of social justice and animals, and noted as the first Black Christian saint. Miracles attributed to him include communicating with animals and levitation. The choice of medium reinforces the theme: the laser beam is itself a transmutation, turning audio waves into light waves, and light has long stood for transcendence in Christian imagery. In her latest video piece, two unnamed characters converse casually among the art community of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, with themes of family and chosen family, grief and longing recurring in small gestures, laughter and music.

The exhibition is, in the gallery's words, a eulogy that finally testifies to a belief in magic. An echo, like a twin, doubles a single utterance, and Miller uses that doubling throughout the show to hold loss and continuity in the same frame.