carlier | gebauer, Madrid, is pleased to announce Pasajes, a solo exhibition by Argentinean artist and filmmaker Sebastián Díaz Morales. The exhibition will present 6 films from his Pasajes series (2012 – onwards), which confronts viewers with a continuum of ruptures, an incommensurable succession of images of disparate spaces and places.

Through the aesthetic processes of montage and semiotic overlaying, Díaz Morales’s Pasajes series opens up a semi-surreal scenario in which the acting subject (the protagonist) appears ever-more fragile, and to some degree even fictional himself. His walking, his search, must apparently be continued ad infinitum, so that the seeker here becomes the prisoner of his own intentions.

Díaz Morales’s visual language is characterized by clarity, by a documentary straight-forwardness, but also by subtle irony and skepticism. In the Pasajes series he creates spatial structures from imaginary connections that simply depict what supposedly exists and that make so-called reality appear as a construct and an illusion.