
(Mexico City, 1975)
Diego Pérez’ multidisciplinary practice continuously plays with the idea of borders, either regarding the limits that divide art from other sorts of objects, those that divide art from the wider public, or those that separate contemplation from experimentation. The artist articulates a sculptural imagination in which every material is an inexhaustible source of forms whose relationships do not end in the work, but extend towards environment and spectator alike.
Having started his career in Photography, Pérez has oriented his work towards the public life of objects, fomenting, with humor and an affinity for fantasy, an inquiry about social relationships that assign meaning to the artworks. It is in everyday life where a chair becomes a shelf, or where a box transforms into a plant pot; the art-life border is constituted and dissolved in the conjunction of public space, work and spectator.
According to Pérez, it is important to let imagination and daydream flow, because that is where the contact among apparently separate fields is produced between artist and artisan, connoisseur, casual observer and so on.
Diego Pérez currently lives and works in Mexico City.
Diego Pérez
Cubo de marmol negro, 2019
Black marble from Monterrey
40h x 40w x 40d cm
15 95/127h x 15 95/127w x 15 95/127d in
Unique
Diego Pérez
Museo, 2015
Terrazzo and wood
88h x 75w x 38d cm
34 31/48h x 29 19/36w x 14 122/127d in
Unique
Diego Pérez
Banco jaguar, 2018
Carved lava stone
32.50h x 37w x 50.50d cm
12 101/127h x 14 72/127w x 19 97/110d in
Unique
Diego Pérez
Sin título (Homenaje doble), 2019
Black marble from Monterrey and wood
29.50h x 205w x 30d cm
11 43/70h x 80 17/24w x 11 73/90d in
Unique
Diego Pérez
Sin título, 2019
Terrazzo, wood and crássula
58h x 66w x 50d cm
22 106/127h x 25 62/63w x 19 37/54d in
Unique
Diego Pérez
Cubo de travertino zacatecano con escalera y pileta, 2018
Marble
40h x 39w x 40d cm
15 95/127h x 15 45/127w x 15 95/127d in
Unique