We had the pleasure to receive the Mexican artist César Damián (for two months), whom arrived in Buenos Aires, to carry out a production residency in ´ace, through a joint grant from the governments of Argentina (Secretary of Culture of the Presidency of the Nation) and Mexico (FONCA-CONACULTA).

The guiding axis of this artist’s work has been migration, a vehicle for his creative projects and promoter of his own personal transformations, from which he investigates themes that symbolize its ramifications: geography, distance, mobility, rupture; border, identity, evocation, anguish, fear, life and death.

ARTIST’S TESTIMONY

My creative experience is born in conventional photography from where I have explored the image as an expressive foundation. Motivated by a need for experimentation and search, I have gradually crossed my practice into other disciplines. As I have been involving myself in new projects, I have discovered myself immersed in interdisciplinary processes. Within these exercises, the greatest challenge has been at the same time the most stimulating cause: developing collaborative processes with artists from diverse disciplines and, above all, conceiving art as a system of multidisciplinary, transversal, experimental and collaborative manifestation.

My work, although visual, tries to link itself to poetry, space, texture, and sound. I understand it as a sensory / sensual creation system, from where I go through dreams, darkness, illumination, the landscape, the faces and the violated body. I am interested in representing the creator of my time, in building new meanings, new narratives. Investigate the multidimensional. Entering a map, appearing in another, where the reality and the memory intersect. Pursue and configure parallel realities.

My mission as an artist is to discern what allows me to create my own need to express, invent, experiment, investigate, confront, question and be free.