Artist Statement

I see art as one of the few experiences where I completely detach from myself.

My work is purely experimental, both technically and experience wise. Image is the language I use to communicate with the world. I find it transcendental when compared to trivial daily spoken words.

I create dream tales that speak of what I see and feel in the world while learning about it through them. I believe in spontaneity, freeing myself in its ways to encounter spaces, people and moments. Here is where ideas come to life: in the exact instant of action. No matter how much I try to control the process of creation, it is free, and it is laden with an uncontrollable cultural background.

Since my early stages in photography around 1990, I´ve always felt this art as a way of life, as a language of expression as opposed to representation. For me, it is the tool which I use to study and learn about the world around me. My training comes from motion pictures, which is linked to photography in it´s essence, but it is very different in the outcome. This is why my video works are very different from my photography. With photography, I freeze long moments and periods of action, whilst I use video to extend very brief moments.

Movement is a component which recurs in my work. Movement as a depiction of time.

Initially the representation of movement was literal by using camera motion, object motion or both simultaneously, until I discovered that in photography the speed of light (moving element) could be used to freeze an instant. Studio investigations helped me understand lighting technics in a way that encouraged me to apply them in open spaces, within nature (another moving element). This opened to new possibilities in achieving a synthesis of all my earlier works into one. In the past, I worked on simultaneous diverse styles at one time. Now I feel comfortable in this one line of work that brings together all of the ingredients I used in the past, while preserving one main content: Stories of movement, stories about present, past and future combined in one image. Stories that tell of the only thing I can be sure of, my experience. After having travelled the world enough to lose myself, and in that process, my ego, I have come to understand that we individuals are indeed not so different from each other. In the end, beyond all cultures, borders and distances, we all want the same: love. This is my Story.



Diego Alonso, Madrid, May 2009.



Time + Space = You Control:E=mc2 Cosmic Connection Entre Ríos
Time + Space = You

Control

Cosmic Connection

Entre Ríos

Landing Painting El Mundo Kamasutra Led Walking
Landing Painting

El Mundo

Kamasutra Led

Walking

MDA Nada Urban Terrorism Natura Mortis
MDA

Nada

Urban Terrorism

Natura Mortis


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