Exposición
The Ephemeral Village
Diego Fernando Prieto
1 January - 12 March 2025
The Ephemeral Village is the title of the exhibition that Imaginart dedicates to the artist Diego Fernando Prieto, born in Ibagué in 1984.
From a young age, he showed a growing interest in painting, which materialized into a deep exploration of the portrait genre, seen through old photographs. This interest in exploring intuited presences is embodied in his work, which depicts children dressed in the styles of bygone eras and enigmatic figures in atmospheres that evoke his own perceptions and recurring dreams.
In this way, his work questions the nature of reality, also offering a complex and profound reflection on the symptomatology of diverse beliefs, emotions, and rituals. Prieto’s work challenges the coherence of what we consider “real.”
Diego Fernando Prieto
His work features children dressed in the fashions of bygone eras and enigmatic characters in atmospheres that evoke his own perceptions and recurring dreams. In this way, his work questions the nature of reality, offering a complex and profound reflection on the symptomatology of diverse beliefs, emotions, and rituals.
This work is a portrait of the artist’s mother, standing at the edge of a bridge that fades into the center of the painting. Fish are a recurring symbolic element in Diego Fernando Prieto’s work. He links them to faith, beliefs, and the subject’s relationship with spirituality.
This integration of the fantastic into realistic environments, presented in a natural and everyday manner, finds its roots in Magical Realism, a literary movement rooted in Latin American culture that challenged the boundaries between reality and imagination. To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the death of one of its most representative authors, Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude), we present an exhibition inspired by this evocative movement, which found its epicenter in the city of Barcelona during the 1960s and 1970s.
In this exhibition, Fernando Prieto’s fantastical and dreamlike approach continues the tradition of Magical Realism.
