Diego Ascencio Fuentes
Diego Ascencio is a young Mexican artist who combines photography and painting in his work. Ascencio Fuentes' work explores the visual relationship between certain defined elements and their abstract counterpart, acting as a translation of the constructed, considering color as a language, also, as one of the discourses proposed by architecture and its interaction with spatial experience. On the other hand, Ascencio Fuentes presents in his work a way of stopping time and physically deforming it, usually by elongating specific moments, thus creating a utopian idea in the permanence of memory, which he defines as ‘Chromatic Memories’. His career has so far focused on his native Mexico, participating in major national fairs and making the leap to Europe by participating in Barcelona (Spain) at SWAB.
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Stretching Landscapes
Stretching Landscapes is a series that investigates the elasticity of time and its relationship with memory. Starting from the idea of "stretching" minutes beyond their usual measure, the artist proposes a visual language that dilates the ephemeral and transforms it into an expanded experience. Inspired by the Tesseract from Interstellar — that multidimensional space where time is represented as lines of color — Ascencio establishes a parallel between perception, memory, and representation. In his works, he begins with a printed photograph that captures a specific instant, but which is extended through frames painted with acrylic. Using the colors of the original image, the pictorial gesture visually stretches the moment, as if memory were unfolding beyond the frame. The result is a dialogue between painting and photography, between the real and the remembered, reflecting how memories transform over time: they distort, they embellish, they dilute. Stretching Land
The nature of time
The "The Nature of Time" series delves into the philosophical and scientific complexities of time, exploring the tension between its physical dimension and our subjective perception. Through references to presentism, eternalism, and the theory of relativity, it poses questions about the "arrow of time" and its apparent irreversible direction. The artist connects these reflections with the imaginaries of science fiction, where time travel and narrative paradoxes are speculated upon. Thus, the work combines conceptual rigor with a poetic approach, inviting us to question whether time is an external reality or a construction of consciousness. Ultimately, it reminds us that our experience of time is anchored in two vital coordinates: birth and death.
Colour studies
Ascencio's "Colour Studies" series explores the role of color as a historical and symbolic axis in modern architecture, from its primitive root in cave paintings to its aesthetic function in iconic buildings. The artist takes works by Barragán, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, and the Eames as references, using the same material as the original construction in each piece. With this, he translates emblematic buildings into chromatic studies that condense their visual and poetic identity. The series turns color into a vehicle of memory and emotional connection, evoking associations between architectural forms and personal experiences. Thus, it proposes a radical abstraction where color is a testament to history, matter, and perception.
