We are very happy to announce the fourth solo exhibition of Argentinian born (1975, Comodoro Rivadavia) artist Sebastian Diaz Morales at carlier | gebauer. Diaz Morales, who is living and working in Amsterdam, will present two new, interrelated video works „The way between two points (Terra Incognita)“ (2009) and „Water from the moon“ (2009) at carlier | gebauer. A range of photographs, sculptures and site specific work will contextualize these two new productions.

Sebastian Diaz Morales’ videos and video installations discuss in multiple ways the possibilities of an expanded form of filmic narration. Often, the people in his videos play the parts of extras of a scenery in which cultivated landscapes and urban spaces are reconverted into seemingly unconscious and renaturalized sites. Where man has reclaimed land, has adjusted nature to his aims, Diaz Morales’ videos seem to perform a ‚second nature’, one which seems to be closer to its primary forms and which is guided by a logic, that shimmers through but is never fully graspable for mankind. Diaz Morales composes poetic narrations of the life of man’s external nature. Being influenced by south-american avant-garde films as much as by north-american documentary photography, Diaz Morales interwines both into a visual world, in which the symbolism of the former and the rigorous layout of the latter merge into a new life of forms. He releases the narrations which are inscribed into landscapes and things.