“The Sacred Mountains” is a hybrid photographic project that produces a mixture of two worlds: the Mexican and the Swiss to whom I belong, through photography, graphic intervention, and collage I investigate popular mythology. From legends and magical stories, I employ an analogy in the archive of both territories, creating new invented realities with the help of the oral tradition of the women of my family, mainly my maternal grandmother.
Mexican mythology, like its population, reflects a mixture of indigenous and Spanish influences. The majority of the population of modern Mexico is culturally influenced by the Catholic religion and its apocalyptic vision of evil. Similarly, Swiss myths, legends, and religious beliefs root both in European Christian as well as in Pagan traditions.
Diego Moreno pose la question de l’invention de sa mythologie familiale. Avec l’aide de sa grand-mère mexicaine, il peuple de démons et d’esprits les souvenirs photographiques d’un passé suisse qu’il n’a pas vécu. Inventant un syncrétisme religieux et culturel, mettant au monde des chimères fantastiques, Diego Moreno s’approprie ainsi son passé avec flamboyance.
In both Mexico and Switzerland we can observe a deep attachment to nature, in which the symbolism of mountains is exceptionally powerful. My project “The Sacred Mountains.” helps me to reflect through fiction on the complexity of the cultures we are surrounded by and are part of. I use the mountain and the family album as symbols and triggers of individual and collective memory that generate identity over time.
Diego is a Swiss-Mexican artist. He studied Photography at the Centro de la Imagen (México City) and the Centro de las Artes de San Agustín (Oaxaca) and has received numerous International Awards (The LensCulture Art Award 2021; The OpenWalls 2020 by The British Journal Of Photography; The Air-Montreux Switzerland Artistic Excellence Residency 2021; The Cheerz Photo Festival Paris 2019 Award; The POY LATAM Award; TheFINI2019Award and the Lens Culture Emerging Talent 2018).
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Tous nos souvenirs sont mêlés de croyances, de projections et de fantasmes. Notre passé et notre histoire familiale sont réajustés tout au long de notre vie: chaque souvenir, même collectif, fait l’objet d’une réinterprétation personnelle, en constante évolution. Nous oublions des événements essentiels, ou au contraire, gardons vifs à l’esprit une odeur, une couleur, une lumière. Notre passé est notre création.
“The Sacred Mountains” is a hybrid photographic project that produces a mixture of two worlds: the Mexican and the Swiss to whom I belong, through photography, graphic intervention, and collage I investigate popular mythology. From legends and magical stories, I employ an analogy in the archive of both territories, creating new invented realities with the help of the oral tradition of the women of my family, mainly my maternal grandmother.
Mexican mythology, like its population, reflects a mixture of indigenous and Spanish influences. The majority of the population of modern Mexico is culturally influenced by the Catholic religion and its apocalyptic vision of evil. Similarly, Swiss myths, legends, and religious beliefs root both in European Christian as well as in Pagan traditions.
Diego Moreno pose la question de l’invention de sa mythologie familiale. Avec l’aide de sa grand-mère mexicaine, il peuple de démons et d’esprits les souvenirs photographiques d’un passé suisse qu’il n’a pas vécu. Inventant un syncrétisme religieux et culturel, mettant au monde des chimères fantastiques, Diego Moreno s’approprie ainsi son passé avec flamboyance.
In both Mexico and Switzerland we can observe a deep attachment to nature, in which the symbolism of mountains is exceptionally powerful. My project “The Sacred Mountains.” helps me to reflect through fiction on the complexity of the cultures we are surrounded by and are part of. I use the mountain and the family album as symbols and triggers of individual and collective memory that generate identity over time.
Diego is a Swiss-Mexican artist. He studied Photography at the Centro de la Imagen (México City) and the Centro de las Artes de San Agustín (Oaxaca) and has received numerous International Awards (The LensCulture Art Award 2021; The OpenWalls 2020 by The British Journal Of Photography; The Air-Montreux Switzerland Artistic Excellence Residency 2021; The Cheerz Photo Festival Paris 2019 Award; The POY LATAM Award; TheFINI2019Award and the Lens Culture Emerging Talent 2018).
diegomoreno.org
@diiegotv
Tous nos souvenirs sont mêlés de croyances, de projections et de fantasmes. Notre passé et notre histoire familiale sont réajustés tout au long de notre vie: chaque souvenir, même collectif, fait l’objet d’une réinterprétation personnelle, en constante évolution. Nous oublions des événements essentiels, ou au contraire, gardons vifs à l’esprit une odeur, une couleur, une lumière. Notre passé est notre création.