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Diego Moreno
Two Moos of Octuber II
from the series "Malign Influences", 2021
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Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles |
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| 1 July to 29 September 2024 |
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Diego Moreno
ABISMOS
from the series "Malign Influences", 2020
© Diego Moreno |
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As part of the renowned photography festival "Les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles", the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation presents works by Mexican artist Diego Moreno at the Fondation Manuel Rivera-Ortiz. On view are images from the series "Malign Influences" and "In My Mind There Is Never Silence". The exhibition is curated by Anne-Marie Beckmann, Director of the Photography Foundation, and her colleague Cornelia Siebert.
In his oeuvre, Moreno processes experiences from his childhood that was characterised by a profoundly religious environment. The photographer, who was active as an altar boy in the Catholic Church for more than ten years, discovered his homosexuality at an early age. Seeing that this did not appear to be compatible with the values of his religion and his family, he developed feelings of guilt. How he came to grips with this trauma can be seen in the two series being shown in this exhibition. In "Malign Influences", Moreno imagines an alternative reality of monstrous creatures. He manipulates photos from his own family’s archives, covers the eyes of the people portrayed, distorts their bodies, and changes their faces to demonic grimaces. With these diabolical beings, he created allies with which – due to his years of perceived rejection – he could better identify with than the people, originally shown in the photos. |
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Diego Moreno
Refuge of Sinners
from the series "In My Mind There Is Never Silence", 2017
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| Strange looking characters also stand in the foreground of his series "In My Mind There is Never Silence". The so-called "Los Panzudos", with their origin in an old Catholic tradition in homage of the Virgin Maria dating back more than five hundred years, are celebrated every year in his native region of Chiapas. People disguise themselves with masks and elaborate costumes that are gaudy and intentionally ugly to symbolise their own sinfulness. These figures remind Moreno of his aunt, who was also described as ugly by many on account of an illness, and who – like Moreno himself – was considered an outsider of society. He created his own "Los Panzudos" that have become part of his everyday life in his private rooms in her honour. |
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Diego Moreno
In Your Hands
from the series "Malign Influences", 2020
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| Diego Moreno was born in Mexico in 1992. He studied photography in Chiapas, and Mexico City from 2012 to 2014. In 2022, he was selected for the Foam Talent Programme. In the same year, his works were exhibited in the Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam Foam, and at the Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation in Frankfurt/Eschborn. He won the OpenWalls Arles Competition of the British Journal of Photography in the year 2020. Currently his work is exhibited as part of the RAY Triennial of Photography RAY at Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt/Main. |
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Diego Moreno
Azucena
from the series "In My Mind There Is Never Silence", 2014
© Diego Moreno |
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