Diego Hernández Sancho (b. 1996. Zaragoza, Spain) is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with photography, time-based media, audio, installation and found objects. He lives and works in London, UK.
His practice ponders on the concepts of youth and time, understood both through the lens of the contemporary phenomena of acceleration.
Employing his camera as a key to intimate spaces, a sense of innocence and kindness populates his work, underpinning the emotional unraveling of the coming-of-age subject. Moving from the particular to the generational, and drifting through images of totemic quality about growth, change and memory, the artist wages both emotionally and artistically with the concepts of persistence and absence, and their direct correlation with the atomization of the self.
Sourcing inspiration from his own upbringing and sexual orientation, he insists in figures of transcendent beauty ranging from quotidian objects to male bodies, passing through exceptional events mixed in with the routinary, all of them arranged in a non-hierarchical structure, and framed in the idiosincratyc imagery of the 21sr century.
Heavily inspired by filmmaking and the technique of montage, Diego’s work trusts its multiple interpretations to the recombination of images and media and the communication stablished between discordant elements.
He is interested in time dilation through the emotional dimension of its nature. Relying on the physical impossibility of his mission, the artist attributes paranormal qualities to the artistic apparatus, which ties together his exploration of time and youth with the ghost-like entities that appeal to teenagers on horror films, both embodying the (im-)possibility of rupturing the parameters of reality, defying the laws of nature and allowing for its malleability.
In 2022, he founded PANG! Projects, an itinerant platform for contemporary creatives, based primarily between London and Barcelona. PANG! has hosted multiple group exhibitions for young artists who are shaping with their praxis a contemporary art landscape beyond the old-fashioned gallery establishment.
Published in FUCKING YOUNG! Magazine.
All images co created with Julia Carbonell.
Shot and Published in 2017.
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All Images Diego Hernández Sancho.
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