Labyrinth of wonder
A solo exhibition at Leica Gallery Mexico City, the result of the gallery's first artist residency in collaboration with Proyecto H, a groundbreaking initiative within the Leica world. The exhibition presented an exploration of the city from a perspective that transforms urban visual chaos into clean and ordered compositions. Gregorio Díaz's work stands out for finding, through his camera, an order and purity absent in the real city. His interest in urban color transforms tarpaulins into backdrops, walls into canvases, and passersby into chromatic accents, evoking the abstraction of Mondrian and Malevich. Gregorio portrays an ideal city, where the gaze rises to the sky, not the pavement. His camera is the key with which he deciphers the territory and reveals the hidden essence in the folds of the urban landscape.
AIRE PRENSA FLECHA
Espacio El Dorado presented to the public Aire Prensa Flecha, the first solo exhibition in Bogotá by Gregorio Díaz curated by Ediciones Réplica. The exhibition brings together images created over the last five years in Colombia and Mexico, proposing a journey through two central lines of his work: geometric abstraction constructed from blocks of primary colors and the penumbra of routine city scenes. His photographs are exercises in chromatic observation that allow the atmosphere of places to be perceived through the objects that construct it. The works are organized in relation to the hours at which they were taken, making explicit the way light affects people and objects throughout the day. The more unhurried scenes and measured compositions occur in front of walls and facades where color and form couple on a single plane. There, his pictorial vision of the world is most evident.
Instrucciones para inventar una ciudad
This solo exhibition was held as part of the first Leica Gallery Mexico City artist residency in collaboration with Proyecto H gallery. For a month, Gregorio Díaz wandered the streets of Mexico City, which he described as an “unfathomable labyrinth,” finding in photography a way to pause the city’s chaotic and dazzling rhythm. The exhibition, Instrucciones para inventar una ciudad, unfolds as a series of observations of the urban landscape, resolved in the geometric forms and primary colors so characteristic of Díaz’s lens.
