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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.
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.
Selected Works
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Sebastián Díaz Morales
Pasajes II
Digital video on led-monitor with copper frame
38,5 × 64 × 7 cm
15 min
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Sebastián Díaz Morales
#6 Into a Silent World (Spinning Car), 2018 – 2019
2-channel video, 4K format
12 min
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Sebastián Díaz Morales
Insight, 20212
HD video, stereo sound
11.31 min
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Sebastián Díaz Morales
Box, Handkerchief, Water, 2003
MiniDV transferred to DVD
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Sebastián Díaz Morales
Pasajes, 2012
Digital video on led-monitor with copper frame
27,5 × 44,5 cm, 12.35 min
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Sebastián Díaz Morales
The Way Between Two Points (Terra Incognita), 2009
Produced with financial support of the Hubert Bals Fund of the International Film Festival Rotterdam and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
2-channel synchronized video, 2-channel sound,HD format on DVD
18 min
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Sebastián Díaz Morales
The Lost Object, 2016
Digital video
13.29 min
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Sebastián Díaz Morales
The Apocalyptic Man, 2002
Digital video transferred to DVD
22.30 min
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Sebastián Díaz Morales
Smoke Signal, 2012
Digital video
7.21 min
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Sebastián Díaz Morales
Suspension, 2014
Single channel videon installation, 2K digital video
14.30 min
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Sebastián Díaz Morales
Smashing Monuments, 2022
Video Installation, stereo
50 min
c|g Exhibitions
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Pasajes | Madrid
09.06.–30.07.2022
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Talk with Dust | Berlin
14.03.–30.05.2020
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So what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? | Madrid
27.02.–01.03.2020
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The Extended Moment | Berlin
14.01.–04.03.2017
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The Lost Object | Berlin
09.09.–08.10.2016
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Ficcionario | Berlin
12.09.–20.10.2012
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Water from the moon | Berlin
23.10.–21.11.2009
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The Means of Illusion | Berlin
08.08.–10.10.2007
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Prototypes | Berlin
01.11.–17.12.2005
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The Apocalyptic Man | Berlin
19.10.–23.11.2002
External Exhibitions
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Solo Exhibition
Smashing Moments | Kunsthall 3, 14, Bergen
24.02.–09.04.2023
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Group Exhibition
Documenta Fifteen | Kassel, Germany
18.06.–25.09.2022
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Group Exhibition
WALK! | Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
18.02.–22.05.2022
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Solo Exhibition
Suspension | Kunsthal Gent
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Solo Exhibition
Talk with Dust | STUK. House for dance, image and sound, Leuven
16.10.–15.12.2019
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Solo Exhibition
Ficcionario IV | Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen
14.10.2016–05.06.2017