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.











I AM FULL OF LOVE is a photographic project on the coming of age experience. 
A generational feeling of longing for a fuller, extended experience of teenage wonder and freedom amidst the times of social acceleration is represented in an array of images, ranging from portraits to still lifes, all hand printed through darkroom technique.
With the camera working as a key to the personal spaces of subjects facing the end of their childhood, a sense of intimacy, innocence  and kindness populates the images, underpinning the enhanced emotional unravelling of the teenager. The projects reflects, not only on the experience of the subjects documented through the process, but in the coming of age of the author and its relation with youth that appears already lost or wasted to the idiosyncrasy of the 21st Century.
Understood Time as a constant pushing towards the end of the life period this project is trying to capture, dealing with this matter from a photographic perspective as much as from an emotional one turns into one of the essential research points for this series.
Moving from the personal to the generational passing through images of totemic quality about growth, change and memory, the project tries to find assertion through the interconnection of elements and media, aiming for the holistic, to bring close the spectator to an experience that may be as theirs as it is the author’s either internally as it is visually.


I AM FULL OF LOVE is an ongoing series of work, with its first chapter completed in 2020.





Love & Communication - Take 1.


Video, 1920 x 1080. Mono channel. 5’57’’.
(Draft/Cropped)

Love & Communication is a developing series of video-performance pieces. Based on the principles of non verbal communication, the piece highlights the importance of emotional and sympathetic transference in a climate of prevalent acute atomization and detachment.

Take 1 assimilates the structure of the Mathematical Theory of Communication while drawing parallels with the intimate act of sex.

All music performed and composed by Samuel Hart.






EDITORIAL WORK


SALOMÉ WU. COMMISSIONED PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL. SUPERNATURAL HIGH. GEORGE REXSTREW FOR BEHIND THE BLINDS. RAT TAILS. COMMISSIONED PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL. PEEKABOO. PATRICK DOUGHERTY FINAL COLLECTION LOOKBOOK. JACK FARTHING FOR BEHIND THE BLINDS. SALOMÉ WU. COMMISSIONED PROMOTIONAL MATERIAL. MUSIC RELEASE. HOTEL ROOM FOR TEETH MAGAZINE.

........

PANG! PROJECTS


Born between London and Barcelona, artist led PANG! Projects is an initiative dedicated to the platforming of the most exciting voices of the international contemporary art scene.
Of nomadic location and shapeshifting nature, PANG! will constantly reinvent itself in order to grant the most efficient way to bring the best art to the public. Our project moves beyond the traditional concept of an art gallery and will employ all necessary creative means to our purpose.

Collaboration and dialogue are core to our initiative. Our aim to tend bridges between different art scenes and cultural hotspots in Europe. We believe in no borders or unnecessary hierarchies, and keep our doors open to organically evolve as a community, while caring for and supporting our participating artists.

After the radical shift created by the Covid-19 pandemic, and as a result of the policies of scarcity and disconnection assaulting our political and cultural scene, making art for a living has become an increasingly difficult mission. We want PANG! to be our contribution towards this seemingly impossible goal.

By collaborating with emerging artists, we want to promote the work of those who have made their art an art of endurance against the adversities for all creatives in the field.
Because of this, PANG! has a compromise with all exhibiting artists, offering them straightforward conditions and simple contracts, and a higher commission than the 50% industry standard.

PANG! Projects’ ultimate purpose is that of creating a space to celebrate contemporary art and the artists that make it happen. Simple as that. Holding room for conversation between the public and practitioners, where to share the transforming characteristics of an art piece with friends, family and strangers alike.

We want our collaborating artists ́ praxis to be at the front and centre of our initiative ́s identity, only defined by their passion and creativity.


VISIT WEBSITE.





EDITIONS




“Quiet but for an engine”. 2021. 12” x 15”

Edition of 20 + 2 A.P. Signed and Numbered. Glicée Inkjet Print.
Framing options available. Consult for other dimensions or editions.


“Something Sweet (A peach tree). 2020” 2021. 12” x 16”

Edition of 20 + 2 A.P. Signed and Numbered. Glicée Inkjet Print.
Framing options available. Consult for other dimensions or editions.


“Warm and fuzzy. Whitecross” 2022. 12” x 16”

Edition of 20 + 2 A.P. Signed and Numbered. Glicée Inkjet Print.
Framing options available. Consult for other dimensions or editions.


FOR ANY ENQUIRIES CONTACT AT:

diego.hernandez.photo@gmail.com

-OR-

@_bydiegohhss_


FEATURES:

King Kong Magazine, Teeth Magazine, Fucking Young Magazine, FlowHouse Magazine...


CLIENTS AND COLLABORATIONS:

Uno Models, Viva Models, The Squad Management, Supa Model Management, Klaus Management, Patrick Dougherty, Harri K.S, Guangyu Li, Rainer Ganahl...


SOLO SHOWS:

- I AM FULL OF LOVE. London. December, 2019. Arts SU Gallery. 272 High Holborn.


GROUP SHOWS:

- Torn. London. February, 2020. Oxo Tower Wharf. Barge House Street.

PUBLICATIONS:

- A conjunction of images taken the two prior days to the fire of Notre Dame. Happiness is an extremely uneventful subject. 2020. Self-published.

CURATION:

- Your Heart to a Dog to tear. London. December, 2022. PANG! Projects at Take Courage Gallery.
- ENTER CHORUS. Barcelona. September, 2022. PANG! Projects at LAB-ART Studio.
E



©DiegoHernandezSancho

All Images Diego Hernández Sancho.
-2024-