RAFAEL DIAZ
Public Art Installation in the Miami Design District, Corner of 38th Street and NE 2nd Avenue
Miami Art Week, December 2020
Rafael Diaz Is a medical doctor and an artist. In his Anonymous series, Diaz melds his two careers using the 5th century Hyppocratic Oath, an oath doctors take to keep patient confidentiality, as the point of inspiration to photograph his subjects, anonymously. With faces in shadow, each subject’s identity is defined by partial clues such as age, hair, skin color, tattoos, and more. At a time when a worldwide pandemic has affected us all, Diaz’s anonymous series is a reminder that patients are not statistics but individuals despite this need for confidentiality.
A self-taught artist, Rafael Díaz is a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the Evangelical University of El Salvador. He developed his early art work under the eye of renowned Salvadoran painter César Menéndez, and for a while combined the honing of his plastic art skills at the artist’s workshop with his training in the medical field and the practice of medicine. Not coincidentally, his work as a doctor has a powerful influence on his artistic output, where human struggle in the face of disease and death is a recurring theme. Based in Spain since 2003, he has turned to photography as a medium to convey his critical view of the social issues he is in constant contact with as a medical practitioner, and to do so with a distinct artistic voice.
These images are available in two sizes: 31.5 x 21 inches and 47 x 31.5 inches, both are editions of 5. Please email dina@dinamitranigallery.com for price inquiries.
