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.
