Isabel Diaz Catoni

www.isabeldiazcatoni.com
@isabeldiazcatoniart

Have you thought about how the spaces around you shape your life? What feelings does your everyday workspace evoke? I am a Chilean printmaker; my practice explores site-specific architectural identities across the places I have lived. I invite you to reflect on the visual identity of your urban space.
As a child, I liked to imagine how to transform spaces, which made me realise that most built structures have a fixed nature that resists change. Later, when I became an architect, I realised that the city’s infrastructure shapes how we see and move through the world, while architecture reflects cultural identities.
My creative process is rooted in psychogeography: exploring the city where I live and documenting its urban realm through photography. These images become the basis for surreal, collaged compositions that construct new spatialities and aim to reveal afterimages of the urban realm. I then develop these compositions through printmaking techniques, a process that mirrors how cities themselves are constructed, layer by layer, through the accumulation of diverse cultural influences and architectural styles.

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