BIO
Damián Peralta was born and raised in Mendoza, Argentina, surrounded by mountains and a family of artists. A mountain guide, visual artist, and explorer of the spaces where nature and the inner world meet, his work spans oil, acrylic, and his personal technique "ensamblaje de manchas"also known as Peel & Assemble. His series are united by the same question: what do we carry inside, and how is it built?
STATEMENT
Damián Peralta works at the intersection of pictorial gesture and identity construction. His most radical expression is Peel & Assemble, a technique in which acrylic and enamel paints are poured onto non-stick surfaces, peeled off once dry, and sculpted by hand before being reassembled on raw wood as a three-dimensional pictorial collage. The wood is not a neutral background, it is the organic counterpart to the synthetic materiality of acrylic and enamel. Two natures in tension, holding the same question.
His current series, Fragments of the Self, proposes identity as an act of assembly. In societies shaped by migration, like Argentina, the self is built from pieces that come from elsewhere, fragmented stories, second-hand memories, inherited gestures without context. There is no single origin, no linear narrative. Only fragments finding each other.
