Alejandro Figueredo Diaz-Perera

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Artist statement

Alejandro Figueredo Díaz-Perera is a Cuban-American multi-disciplinary artist based in Los Angeles who works a variety of media including: video, painting, installation and sculpture. Whereas, the medium is dictated by the idea or investigation. His practice deals with the subversion of phenomenological meaning through material transformations and placing active spectators at the center of the work, positing paradoxes that are left for the audience to decipher. Diaz’s work has been exhibited in Cuba, the United States, Germany, India and Turkey. Some of these include “Interface, Art and Community in the Ahmanson Collection”; “Cubans: Post Truth, Pleasure, and Pain” at Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art; “Home Land Security”, curated by Cheryl Haines at For-Site Foundation; participation in Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA at the Torrance Art Museum; participation in the 10th and 11th Havana Biennials, and an exhibition in collaboration with Gabriel Orozco in Havana.

Artwork

• The Beginning aka The End, 2014. Ashes and acrylic paint on canvas
• Dissonance, 2014. TV monitors, headphones, kneeling pads.
• In the Absence of a Body, 2014. endurance performance for the duration of 3 weeks
• 34,000 Pillows, 2016. Used and donated clothes made into pillows, workshops.
• Skin, 2017. Layered wall paint, stucco, drywall
• 30 Coats, 2018. Sculpted drier lint composed of dust, fibers, hair and skin cells
• SHHHH (Iron Mother), 2021. bronze
• Impasse, 2026. oil, pigments, egg yolk and cold wax on canvas
• Canto ii: The Poet (Virgil or Blake) opening the Gates of Hell, 2026. oil on canvas