Frieze New York 2021

Wilson Díaz’s work is informed by the complex sociopolitical context of Colombia. His practice includes music, painting, performance, photography, and video. While the range of mediums is broad, Díaz’s oeuvre is unified by his commitment to exploring the tensions inherent within local imaginaries and specifically by interrogating the representation of violence in the mass media. In capturing intimate moments and tracing complex constellations of human and political influence, his art offers persuasive alternatives to conventional perceptions shaped by ideology and propaganda.

Díaz is one of Colombia’s most relevant artists. His work has been a constant influence for local artists, and has helped to construct the landscape of contemporary art in the region. His body of work can be read as a non-linear historical narrative that explores the multiple tensions, conflicts and believes, in a region that can only be explained by the mystics and poetics of art. Through the repetition of form and in a self-reflective exercise constantly present in his practice, Díaz recreates the process of re-circulation and appropriation of images.