DIEGO INESTRILLAS

Exploring the intersections between humans and the environment
Diego Inestrillas is a multidisciplinary artist (Mexico City, 1998) whose practice focuses on representing the dialogue between materials, spaces and subjects, investigating the intersection between the natural and the industrial within urban areas.
Living for more than 20 years in constant transit between the forest and the city triggered his interest in finding out where each person's posture towards his or her environment stems from.
Inestrillas complements his understanding of cognitive processes, decay and the transformation of nature through dialogue with experts in disciplines such as biology, anthropology and neuroscience.
Statement:
In my artistic practice, I strive to prompt a profound dialogue on our ephemeral nature, our vulnerability and the passage of time. My work beckons the viewer to navigate the cathartic labyrinth of awareness and metamorphosis, stressing the perpetual cycles of decay that define our existence. I explore the relationship between humanity and nature.
Through the juxtaposition of materials, subjects and spaces, I contemplate mortality, mirroring the ephemerality of materials onto ourselves. I use contrast and contradiction to create cognitive dissonance, challenging our binary perspective of the world. Within my photography, the human body becomes both subject and metaphor. Cloaked only by skin, the body prompts a dialogue on corporeal temporality and the enduring remnants of earth. Open mines and landslides are spaces that convey destruction and creation. My work draws inspiration from Islamic beliefs, exploring the relationship between spirit and matter.
I delve into the alchemy of transformation through sculpture, where found objects and natural materials bare witness to the passage of time. These are a juxtaposition of two realities, where junk metal and tires contrast to wood and bones. These materials have found a space where they coexist, as if symbiotic. They carry the weight of history, they are the remnants of destruction as well as of creation, they stand as monuments of the transcendence of mortality and embrace the scars of their own creation.
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Exhibitions ////
2025 / Programmed / Aguascalientes / ENAJ - Casa de la Cultura
2025 / Programmed / Gto. / Torre Andrade - PACO
February 2025 / CDMX / Salon Acme
June 2023 - Exhibition & Talk / Manja / Lisbon
May 2023 - Finalist / Exhibition program Museu Bordalo Pinheiro / Lisbon
April 2023 - Group Exhibition / Goethe Institut / Lisbon
Residencies ////
March 2023 / Fábrica Moderna / Lisbon
Activities ////
November 2022 - February 2023 - Art Activities / Calouste Gulbenkian / Lisbon
October 2022 - Art activities / Centro Cultural de Belem / Lisboa
Publications ////
April 2024 - Photo Vogue
January 2022 - Press / InStyle Mexico / Mexico City
Art Production & Management ////
January 2024 - Present / Production / Mariana Dellekamp
September 2023 - March 2024 / Exhibition Management / Galería Hilario Galguera / GHG Zona Maco / Mexico City
Musical Performance /////
2016 - 2019 - Performance / Various venues / Mexico City
November 2016 - Concert / Daydream Festival / Puebla, Mexico
Formal Studios ////
2025 - Programmed MFA / NYU Abu Dhabi
June 2018 - Dec. 2022 - BA International Business / Tecnológico de Monterrey / Mexico