In the Studio: Diego Sagastume

Join us live on Instagram from your cell phone, or watch here and on YouTube after, for a series of remote visits to artists' studios to bring Americas Society's Visual Arts public programs to your home. Every Wednesday and Friday this month, contemporary artists will dialogue with our Visual Arts department about their work and practice.

About the artist:

Diego Sagastume (b. Guatemala City, 1991) is a self-taught artist and coder living and working in Guatemala City. Mainly focused on sculpture, photography, and video, his work analyzes the city as a space in which, through the confluence of multiple agents, tangible and intangible phenomena take place, as well as processes of mutual transformation between individuals and their surroundings. Resonating ideas throughout the development of his work are the interdependence theory (Kelley, Thibaut & Kriti Sharma) and the "off-modern"—a "term-in-progress" as author Svetlana Boym described it. He is co-founder of Riña, an artist-run gallery and La Construcción, an exhibition space, both based in Guatemala City. Selected exhibitions: "Killing the Tropic," Cherry Gallery, Richmond, USA (upcoming, 2020), "The 10s or: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Do It Anyway,” Riña, Guatemala City (upcoming, 2020), "Guatemala from 33,000 km: Contemporary Art, 1960–Present," Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, USA (2017), "Overload," The 9.99 Gallery, Guatemala City, Guatemala (2017), "Cycle of Guatemalan Film—The 32nd Biennial of Graphic Arts," Ljubljana, Slovenia (2017), "Trans/visible—Paiz Biennial," Guatemala City (2014), "La Otra Bienal", Colombia (2013), "Ciudad de Mente", Matucana 100, Santiago de Chile (2013).

Visit the Americas Society Visual Arts YouTube Channel for recordings of In the Studio Series and other previous events.

More digital content from Visual Arts at Americas Society:

• Read the exhibition catalogue for Feliciano Centurión: Abrigo.
• Watch the documentary Feliciano Centurión: Abrazo Íntimo al Natural, directed by Mon Ross (2016).
• Watch recent events videos:
  • Curator's Perspective – Jacopo Crivelli Visconti
  • "I Am Reborn at Every Moment" – Contemporary Reflections on Feliciano Centurión and AIDS
  • Ulises Carrión – Art, Mail, Books, and So…
  • Book Launch: Alejandra Seeber – Picture This Featuring the Artist in Conversation with Guillermo Kuitca

Image caption: Diego Sagastume. Courtesy of the artist. Photo by Andrés Vargas.