Career
Born in 1975 in Comodoro Rivadivia, Argentina, and currently dividing his time between that city and Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Sebastián Díaz Morales belongs to the newest generation of Latin American artists. In his films and videos, Mr. Diaz Morales explores the possibilities of video from a perspective that falls somewhere between documentarism and reinterpretation of a reality seen through playfulness, irony, and a pained scepticism.
The creation of an unusual atmosphere imbued with a strange sense of unrest is first and foremost.
His work encompasses the most contemporary and creative reportage, epic narrative, documentaries, short auteur films, filmic essays, and indeed an undeniable touch of poetry that cause his videos to oscillate between reality and fiction, always filtered through the artist"s creative subjectivism. They all start from small stories, apparently trivial situations that give rise to other symbolic stories that stir our conscience and renovate our concept of the work of art
His work has been exhibited widely at many prominent venues—such as the Tate Modern, London. Centre Pompidou; Stedelijk Museum and De Appel, Amsterdam.
Art in General, New York City.
Ludwin Museum, Budapest. Bienal de São Paulo; Biennale of Sydney. Miro Foundation, Barcelona.
MUDAM, Luxemburg.
And the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon—and is the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou. Tate Modern; Fundacion Jumex, Mexico. Sandretto Foundation, Torino.
Sammlung-Goetz, Munich.
And the Fundacion de Arte Moderna, Museo Berardo, Lisbon. In 2009 he was awarded with a Guggenheim Fellowship.
(Adapted from an article by Rosa Olivares).
