Juan Diego Tobalina
Juan Diego Tobalina was born in 1982 in Lima (PE), he lives and works in Lima (PE) and Madrid (ES).
“My work takes the form of installations, videos, sound art, and objects. The foundation of my research is perception, as well as the millions of subjectivities that make up what we call Reality. I am particularly interested in processes that involve the creation of unstable, ephemeral moments, in the idea of constantly being between one stage and the next. The occult—or rather, the unknown—is an immaterial space where I feel comfortable working because it is a place where anything can happen. My approach to the unknown is a way of connecting things that cannot be explained but whose presence we can feel around us. I consider absence to be very important, as it relates to a presence that has just departed and to what remains of it. In this way, I also explore issues of the mind, specifically in relation to psychology and psychiatry. I try to investigate different manifestations by working with tests and producing my own interpretations and manipulations to reveal the subjectivity surrounding this topic. What are the ghosts in our minds, and how are they created?” - Juan Diego Tobalina
Juan Diego Tobalina is an artist based between Lima and Madrid. He is a member of the collective BISAGRA, which he co-founded in Lima. He studied at the University of Barcelona and the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru. He has participated in residencies at the Sommerakademie im Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern (2014) and the Cité des Arts in Paris (2013). His solo exhibitions include Hipoacusia at Salon – Madrid (2017), En líneas sin fin at Galería 80m2 Livia Benavides in Lima (2016), Puedes ser algo, held in a former psychiatric clinic in Lima (2016), De ningún lugar a ninguna parte (2015), and Hotel Cosmos (2015), both at Sala Luis Miró Quesada Garland in Lima. He has also participated in group exhibitions such as Premio ICPNA de Artes Visuales 2018 (Lima), Legado y divergencia, ICPNA (2017), Infra-curatorial platform, 11th Shanghai Biennale (2016), among others. In 2012, he was awarded the Pasaporte para un artista grant.
