Diana Segovia
Diana Segovia was born in Buenos Aires in 1971in a family of Italian roots. She trained in Social Communication and filmmaker. She worked as a journalist, photographer and film critic. For twenty years she wrote films, theatre and television with great success in Argentina and Mexico. She is mother a of two children : a young boy and a young girl. In the middle of her forties she decided to leave screenwriting and dedicate to visual arts, starting to work with papers and mixed techniques. Love took her to Italy so actually she lives between Rome and Buenos Aires. “After so long of expressing myself through the word, I found a way of expression in collage that I am passionate about its multiple possibilities. I use paper like a computer or a pencil and feel that the result expresses much more than those elements. In Cities series, I try to represent the imprint of cities through a geometric representation, with some reference to cartography, that seeks to express the general perception of a city, its smells, sounds, colours and culture. In Open Library series, the idea is to view books from another perspective. I use books that have already been used and that it use and time has altered their form leaving them worn out and unarmed . I assume the new physical form, extricating it, exposing it, as well as its content, that I organize looking to give new meaning to words in those pages that will be open and visible constantly. Many of my works includes words but I feel now I can use words in a poetic expression and leave narration to the image, I think I’m telling a story many times with a little pieces of papers. Sustainability is an important issue for me. So I decided to work with reused papers like an ethical and even philosophical position: I want to demonstrate that we can find beauty everywhere, we can create with anything, that’s art, that’s it’s magic. So I reuse papers that come from various objects usually discarded it adds an invaluable plus to my own vision of art. They are papers with memory, they come to tell a new story. I organize them, but they speak for themselves”
