Juan Diaz (Born 1981 - Bogota, Colombia) Contemporary Visual and Performance Artist who lives and works in Naples, Florida, US.
Juan Diaz (Born 1981 - Bogota, Colombia) Contemporary Visual and Performance Artist who lives and works in Naples, Florida, US.
The Ancestry Triptych, 2024
Oil on Canvases
In challenging modern times, new reports by UNESCO warn that artificial intelligence threatens memory. AI-generated content can fabricate or distort historical records and magnify biases for malicious individuals and hate groups to spread disinformation and create new narratives.
My family and I decided to take various scientific tests to determine our ancestry composition. The results showed I am 10% West African (Ghanaian, Liberian, & Sierra Leonean), 25% Indigenous American (Colombian Central and Western Andes), and 65% Southern European (Portugal, Spain, and Italy).
Learning these specifics inspired The Ancestry Triptych, which I acknowledge by portraying each representative based on my historical understanding of their collective emotional and psychological consciousness.
The Ancestry Triptych consists of the following three works (left to right): The Beginning of the End, Coloniser, and The Defilement of Alkebu-lan.
JUAN DIAZ