Daniel Gomez Sancho

Lives and works in Cartago, Costa Rica

Artist statement

My artistic practice investigates human movement as an ephemeral language capable of holding time, memory, and emotion. Through sculpture and installation that integrate traditional processes with digital technologies. I explore how movement transforms a transient event into matter making time, transformation, and memory tangible. Each of my sculptures emerges as a three dimensional photograph isolated from the continuous flow of movement. The works originate from animated sequences in which movement is first imagined, then suspended and translated into material form. By materializing these moments the bodies remain suspended between past and future, between the physical and the virtual, suggesting a movement that extends beyond the frozen instant while preserving the trace of a gesture, the residue of an action, and the persistence of an emotion. Movement therefore ceases to be merely displacement and becomes a record in which memory, imagination, and lived experience converge. Each sculpture passes through multiple material states before reaching its final form, from clay modeling and 3D scanning to digital construction and animation, 3D printing, and casting in aluminum or bronze. Every transition between media shifts the work from one state to another, extending the ongoing passage between an originally ephemeral movement and its sculptural permanence, allowing a digitally constructed instant to acquire a physical and enduring existence. Within this practice, the body...

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