Costa Rican artist Christian Salablanca Díaz has developed a body of work around the phenomenon and experience of violence and the ways in which it generates, determines, and conditions history, society, and politics. Methodologically, he uses field studies to create affective encounters that have to do with the territories and populations of Central and South America as well as the Caribbean. Salablanca's interdisciplinary work is a radical consideration on the cultural relations of violent systems: from the human to the animal, from language to symbolic memory and from the centers of power to the periphery. More recently, Salablanca’s artistic processes have been nurtured by myths and narratives that arise from family encounters with atavistic objects and stories. For the artist, it is important to recuperate and reclaim stories from oral tradition that explain, articulate or mediate different forms of symbolic and traditional knowledge: through narration, Salablanca develop installations, sculptures, drawings and performances and speak of processes of cultural vindication. Salablanca holds a degree in Arts and Visual communication with an emphasis on sculpture from the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica. He has exhibited widely throughout Latin America and Europe and is currently doing a residency at Gasworks, London.