Diana Fonseca

Diana Fonseca - Explosion Implosion

Técnica: 1.07 minutes projection video

Biografía del Artista: Graduated from the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) in 2005, Diana is one of the most interesting and gestural contemporary Cuban artists. She has had numerous solo exhibitions on and off the island. Among her most interesting individual projects are “Cara a cara”, a two-person show with Jacques Villeglé at the Brownstone Foundation, Paris, France; “Diana Fonseca”, at the Sean Kelly Gallery in New York, United States; “Viaje a la semilla”, a joint exhibition with Aimée García at Factoría Habana; and “Extraña verdad”, at El Apartamento, both in Havana, Cuba. Her work has also been included in relevant collective exhibitions such as “Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality”, at the Cranbrook Art Museum in Michigan, USA; “Illness has a Colour”, collateral to the XIII Havana Biennial and held at Estudio 50; “The Cuban Matrix” (Torrence Art Museum, Los Angeles, United States), “Wild Noise” (Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, United States), “Fireflies in the Night” (Stravos Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center, Athens, Greece), and “Transhumance, Beyond Cuban Horizons” (CAB Art Center, Brussels, Belgium). Also notable is his participation in prestigious art fairs: ArtBo, The Armory Show, Untitled Art Fair, ARCO Madrid, Expo Chicago and LISTE Art Fair Basel. In 2015 she was awarded the EFG Bank & ArtNexus Acquisition Award, Bogotá, Colombia. She has also been awarded the Cast Research residency, Melbourne, Australia (2016) and JustMad in Asturias, Spain (2017).

Appropriation, understood as the liberation of the object from all previous commitment, gives way to a rebirth with an artistic nature. This transformation originates from a curiosity without conditions, at least conscious ones, that aspires to the discovery of ideas and metaphors that inhabit the objects. Understood as the reminiscence of an immanent knowledge, they become the medium through which Fonseca communicates a thought, a reflection that has its origin in his own connection and view of what surrounds him. The resulting metamorphosis is framed within surrealist aesthetics. Uncertainty understood as the tension between our present self and our future self is staged in Explosion Implosion.