
artista

artista

Newspapers
→ collective memory / media / the present / politics / information
Detail of the painting The Emperor´s New Clothes
My work explores how images, media, and memory shape our perception of reality.
Through painting, newspapers, photographic archives, and records of displacement, I investigate the relationship between intimate experience and collective history.
Each series functions as a system of observation focused on time, identity, and the transformations of contemporary society.
From family memory to the global media landscape, the works seek to reveal the visible and invisible layers that construct human experience.
I understand painting as a space where archive, representation, and reality remain in constant tension.

Family Album
→ intimate memory / identity / archive / emotional history

That transforms the beach into a psychological space rather than a touristic one.
This is important because it shifts the genre of the “family album” into an ambiguous territory:
memory ceases to be a celebration and becomes a contemplation of time.
The painting transforms domestic memory into an existential reflection on time, the fragility of identity, and the impossibility of fully reconstructin

Detail of painting "Alicia"

Installation Babel Tower
Monterrey, MEXICO
Virginie Kastel, Curator
Elvira Lozano de Todd. Director
Salvador Díaz
Monterrey, MEXICO
CDMX, MEXICO
Virginie Kastel, Curator
Salvador Díaz presents his individual exhibition The consistency of the souvenir at the Pinacoteca de Nuevo León.
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CDMX, MEXICO
Ann Arbor, MI. USA
Amanda Krugliak, Curator
Mexican visual artist Salvador Diaz´s La Pelea/The Fight invite viewers to step inside a painting as participants i...
Ann Arbor, MI. USA
SALVADOR DÍAZ
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