29. may.08

Daniel Martin Diaz is a self-taught Mexican artist producing powerful images, seemingly snatched from the underside of early Judeo-Christian mythology. The images he produces are heavily influenced by the Catholicism inherent in Mexican culture, yet they take as their starting point the darker side of the religion. Also playing an influential role is humanity's apparent obsession with the afterlife, almost as means of explanation for the suffering Mexicans have known and endured over the years.

The otherworldly figures are often contorted and twisted, often-mutilated into startlingly beautiful tableaux that play with archetypal images and symbols. Using Latin texts and alchemical symbology to aid their unnerving journey into the sub-consciousness of the viewer and with a Byzantine slant to them, the sorrow and the longing found lurking when the surface of religion is scratched and laid bare for us to see.