About Me
Diana de Solares lives and works in Antigua Guatemala.
Her immediate surroundings are defined by a lush, shaded garden that captures the shifting light and darkness throughout the day. The large glass doors of her home and studio remain open to the garden and the sky, allowing gusts of wind—and the occasional rain—to reach the threshold of her intimate and creative spaces.
Discovery is an essential element of her artistic practice.
Diana gathers found objects and materials; as well as formal, chromatic, and spatial relationships from her environment, which she uses to assemble hanging pieces, floor works, wall installations, as well as compositions on paper, canvas, and various types of wood.
De Solares evokes the figure of the gatherer—an ancestral feminine archetype, deeply connected to the earth, to rhythm, to cycles.
The gatherer knows when to collect, when to release, when to wait. She does not uproot—she takes what falls. She walks with attentive eyes and pockets full of invisible seeds.
Her technique often approaches that of collage: bringing together disparate fragments in works on paper, sculptures, and assemblages, as well as in her paintings, where geometric forms and a range of colors come into play.
To Diana de Solares, collage is a way of thinking—a way of seeing the world as a network of fragments awaiting new meaning and new arrangement. Her process is slow and deliberate: collecting, choosing, cutting, assembling—such is her approach to resisting entropy. To reconfigure the world without concealing the cracks.