The image depicts a dramatic, sculptural artwork featuring a prominent, intricate organic form against a dark, textured background. The composition is dominated by the striking, asymmetrical shape, which appears to be a fossilized or decaying natural specimen, such as an insect or plant remnant. The contrasting dark tones and sculptural quality suggest an emphasis on texture, materiality, and the juxtaposition of natural and artificial elements. This unconventional, evocative work likely reflects the artist's interest in exploring themes of decay, transience, and the fragile beauty of the natural world through an abstract, avant-garde aesthetic. ...
Tomás Díaz Cedeño (b. 1983, Mexico City) lives and works in Mexico City. His artistic production delves into the interplay between the natural and the artificial, resulting in unique syncretic and liminal encounters where landscape, materials, and the body converge. Diaz Cedeño utilizes natural and found pigments, clay, and metal in his creative process, often incorporating performative solo rituals and interaction with technology. This approach yields alternative representations of the body and organic structures found in nature.
Díaz Cedeño’s recent individual and group shows have taken place at Silke Lindner, New York, US; Museo MARCO, Monterrey, MX; Fundación Casa de México en España, Madrid, SP; François Ghebaly in Los Angeles, US; Galerie Nordenhake in CDMX, MX; Frieze London, UK; LISTE Basel, CH; Blain Southern in London, UK; Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, CDMX, MX; Museo del Chopo, CDMX, MX; and PEANA Monterrey, MX. He was part of the New Museum Triennial in 2021 in New York, US. Recent residency programs completed by the artist include LaCasaPark Artist Residency in New York, US; and Casa Wabi in Puerto Escondido, MX. ...
Since its opening in 2017, PEANA has served as a platform for multidisciplinary production and research of emerging Mexican contemporary art, with a strong emphasis on experimental practices. A recurring characteristic of the artists they support is the continuous evolution of the artistic lineage of conceptual rigorously expressions that are grounded in the plasticity of the artwork’s materiality. Through its off-site and group exhibitions PEANA is interested in the curatorial practice as cultural synthesis that bridges historicized art practices to emerging ones from Mexico and abroad. ...
