Néstor Sanmiguel Diest

Artist Néstor Sanmiguel Diest’s output is both systematic and methodical, with his extensive body of work forming a corpus in which the limits between image, text and representation become visible and also problematic. Standing outside conventions, chiefly those that are quick to rule on the obsolescence of certain languages in the modern era, his practice is situated in a field where historical depth can be recognised with references to art history, literature and popular culture. This publication offers the chance to explore Sanmiguel Diest’s practice from the late 1980s to the present day, whereby work, understood as an abstract machine structuring our lives, appears as a perpetual concern.