Diego Rigales
Diego Riglaes is a contemporary artist whose work examines the tension and reciprocity between creation and destruction, trust and skepticism, humanity and artificial intelligence. Working primarily in painting and sculpture, Riglaes treats analog media as both a recording device and a form of resistance, insisting on material presence in an era of accelerating digital fabrication. His practice draws on classical techniques and traditional visual languages, reconfigured through mural-scale thinking and diagrammatic storytelling. Central to Riglaes’s work is a belief in the communal—that shared human capacity to shape the future collectively. By engaging the dual impulses of honoring the past while confronting emergent technologies, his work positions the present moment as historically pivotal. Riglaes’s art functions as a layered archive: fragments that gain fuller meaning when understood as part of an interconnected whole.
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ARTIST’S STATEMENT: These hands contain the power to create or destroy. This same duality of energy exists in all of us. I believe in a world where people trust each other. I believe in the communal - an idea that we share something as a species. The data (artwork) seen here exists within its contextual intention in the current time/space, yes, but will not make complete sense until the work is seen as a whole.
The state of the world has directed me to contemplate and thus provide data to the future of our species as we enter a new phase of co-existing with Artificial Intelligence. I draw inspiration from the duality of respecting the past and celebrating the future. Isn’t everything in the universe indeed…circular? I hope to document this time by utilizing traditional themes and techniques in classical art, paired with muralist-like, diagrammatic storytelling.
Through my artistic practice I research and meditate on such ideologies in coexistence between these two species (humanity and “AI"). We are all witnessing a pivotal moment in history. I choose painting and sculpture as my pen and sword - analog tools of documentation and thus a form of protest in a world where fabricated reality in seconds will only become more and more…real.