Sebastian Diaz Morales
Born in Comodoro Rivadavi, 1975 and lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
His work waves between a passion for documentary investigation – which comes partly from the spectacular nature of his home land, Patagonia, Argentina – and an amazing talent for spontaneous narrative, which is both fantastical and steeped in utopian yearning…
In his films and video installations, SDM constantly returns to an examination of the linguistic and visual possibilities of narration. Influenced by South American avant-garde cinema, documentary approaches and art films, he has developed an unmistakable style. He repeatedly taps into the possibilities opened up by digital processing: the original video sequences become raw material for a practice that dissects the image and recomposes it. The backdrop to his most recent works is set by plumbing the depths of how images can be read and how they relate to or reproduce reality.
DM’s electronic cinema shows the fleeting poignancy of the forgotten human drama that exists everywhere and nowhere, revealing the larger context of the unresolved social problematic that is so pervasive in daily life, from high to low, that it becomes invisible…
