Artist Bio

Diego MorenoSan Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas. Mexico. 1992Visual artist specialized in photography and narrative between Mexico andSwitzerland.His work approaches photography as the main tool to create new realitiesand intertwines with other disciplines such as text, drawing, painting and arttoy. He explores themes of identity such as religion, violence, affection andthe complexity of family and cultural ties in his context. He considersphotography as a possibility of narrative control, which is why he hasspecialized mostly in the creation of photobooks.He has been named as one of the most influential young photographers inthe world by The British Journal Of Photography UK; Creative Review UK andFOAM MAGAZINE Neatherlands.He has received different awards worldwide, such as: UNSTUCK Award 2022in Toronto, Canada by Magenta Foundation; The FOAM TALENT 2022 inAmsterdam; The iPhone Photography Awards 2021 New York; LensCultureArt Awards 2021 Amsterdam; Cheerz Photo Festival 2019 Paris, France; LatinAmerican Photography Award POY LATAM 2019 Ecuador; PremioInternacional de la Imagen 2019 in Mexico; LensCulture Emerging TalentAward 2018 in Amsterdam and the Acquisition Award of the X Biennial ofPuebla de los Angeles 2015 in Mexico. His work is part of solo and group exhibitions, as well as public and privatecollections in America, Europe, Asia and Africa.He has also had publications in different international media such as: TheGuardian, The British Journal Of Photography, Vogue Italia, GQ Magazine,FOAM Magazine, GLAM Cult, IMA Magazine Tokyo, Creative Review;Internazionale Magazine, Vice Magazine, LensCulture, PHMuseum; DerGreif, GUP Magazine, Juxtapoze Magazine; Fisheye Magazine; ELLEMagazine India, The sun, BuzzFeed, FutureShoots, Dienach Magazine, PhotoWorld Magazine China, Burn Magazine, The culture Trip among others.

Artwork statement

The work Malign Influencias by Diego Moreno, explores in a genuine andpeculiar way the archive, the individual and collective memory. It is agraphic intervention project on the author’s family photographic archive inwhich through the manual use of colored pencils, graphite, India ink,markers, oil or materials such as chlorine or vinegar, he intervenes thephotographs as a way to create new possible realities from his obsessionand fascination with the anomalous.Inspired by the apocalyptic vision of the Catholic religion he served fortwelve years as a child altar boy and raised in a highly religiousenvironment, he grew up disturbed and violated for being who he wasbecause of his sexual orientation. His identity was veiled by the prejudicesand guilt bestowed upon you by religious doctrines and the family system.