Sebastián Díaz Morales
Sebastián Díaz Morales’s examination of perception and reality is based on the assumption that reality itself is by nature highly fictional. Thus, his films do not simply transport the viewer into another, surreal, or phantasmal realm, but they strip reality of its familiarity and distort it, making it seem like something else. With Diaz Morales, the viewer’s imagination does not function as a basic counterpart to the real. Rather, it operates as a force capable of evoking space and producing it diegetically, one that, beyond generating a direct visual impression, fills in the gaps in seeing and, as the film unfolds, gradually reveals to the viewer the constructedness of what we call reality. Reality is presented here as a phantasm, as something that always eludes its defining in images. It is therefore always “a little bit ahead” of the image and the viewer’s gaze.
Sebastián Díaz Morales (b.1975, Comodoro Rivadavia) lives and works in Amsterdam. In 2009 he was awarded with a Guggenheim Fellowship. Díaz Morales has exhibited in venues such as STUK Museum, Leuven, Belgium; Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen; Le Fresnoy, Tourcoing; CAC Vilnius, Vilnius; Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Art in General, New York; Ludwig Museum, Budapest; De Appel, Amsterdam; Bienale São Paulo; Biennale of Sydney; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; MUDAM, Luxembourg; Kadist Art Foundation, Paris; and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon. He participated in the 57th Venice Biennale curated by Christine Macel. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London; Fundación Jumex, Mexico City; Foundazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin; Sammlung-Goetz, Munich; and the Fundacion de Arte Moderna, Museu Berardo, Lisbon. Díaz Morales' upcoming exhibitions in 2022 include carlier | gebauer, Madrid, DOCUMENTA Fifteen, Kassel, and De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art, Tilburg.
Exhibitions at carlier | gebauer
- 06/22 Sebastián Díaz Morales, Pasajes
- 03/20 Sebastián Díaz Morales, Talk with Dust
- 02/20 Sebastián Díaz Morales / Hélène Delprat / Michel François / Cecilia Edefalk / Vincent Gicquel / Paul Graham / Dor Guez / Kyungah Ham / Tarik Kiswanson / Julie Mehretu / Caroline Mesquita / Richard Mosse / Oscar Muñoz / Paul Pfeiffer / Laure Prouvost / Edi Rama / Erik Schmidt / Nida Sinnokrot / Thomas Schütte / Mark Wallinger, So what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing?
- 01/17 Sebastián Díaz Morales / Michel François / Paul Graham / Santu Mofokeng / Andreas Mühe / Paul Pfeiffer / Michael Wesely, The Extended Moment
- 09/16 Sebastián Díaz Morales, The Lost Object
- 09/12 Sebastián Díaz Morales, Ficcionario
- 10/09 Sebastián Díaz Morales, Water from the moon
- 08/07 Sebastián Díaz Morales, The Means of Illusion
- 11/05 Sebastián Díaz Morales, Prototypes
- 10/02 Sebastián Díaz Morales, The Apocalyptic Man