Diego Bianchi

  • Since the early 2000s, Diego Bianchi has captured the atmosphere of a generation forged under a chronic state of crisis and precariousness in South America. This mood was—and still is—paradoxically paired with an energetic DIY methodology and a willingness to create new forms of living in dire contexts. Bianchi’s peculiar visual vocabulary, his sculptures being the best example, unfolds from a thorough and playful investigation on the relationship between bodies and objects; desires and devices; the material causes of the Anthropocene; and the purges of financial capitalism in the outskirts of the Western world. Bianchi severs, displaces, and recombines items that are mostly perceived as disposable, invigorating them with anthropomorphic qualities. In his work, an often abject corporeality emerges from a combination of machine and technological elements, and an amalgam of mostly synthetic materials that resemble pieces of flesh or limbs. Power structures and oppression mechanisms come under his scrutiny; while sociological observation of a state of crisis contorts into an eerie and highly sensorial ambient.

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Since the early 2000s, Diego Bianchi has captured the atmosphere of a generation forged under a chronic state of crisis and precariousness in South America. This mood was—and still is—paradoxically paired with an energetic DIY methodology and a willingness to create new forms of living in dire contexts. Bianchi’s peculiar visual vocabulary, his sculptures being the best example, unfolds from a thorough and playful investigation on the relationship between bodies and objects; desires and devices; the material causes of the Anthropocene; and the purges of financial capitalism in the outskirts of the Western world.

Bianchi severs, displaces, and recombines items that are mostly perceived as disposable, invigorating them with anthropomorphic qualities. In his work, an often abject corporeality emerges from a combination of machine and technological elements, and an amalgam of mostly synthetic materials that resemble pieces of flesh or limbs. Power structures and oppression mechanisms come under his scrutiny; while sociological observation of a state of crisis contorts into an eerie and highly sensorial ambient.