Diego Roia was born in Córdoba in 1983 and chose Traslasierra as the place to live and create. Trained in graphic design, he found in art a way of recognizing the world: an exercise in intuition, discovery, and wonder.
His practice is in constant dialogue with the landscape. He gathers minerals, branches, fragments of magazines and books, incorporating them into works that seem to translate the silent language of the territory he inhabits. In the series The Wind Does Not Speak Its Name, he worked with photocopied photographs intervened with dyes from native plants, local resins, and clays, leaving them exposed to sun, rain, and wind so that the environment itself could inscribe its mark. The result is fragile yet vital pieces, sealed with beeswax, which preserve the memory of their passage through the elements.
In parallel, he develops collages where the tangible and intangible intertwine in shifting landscapes. Using old magazines and books, or even fragments of his own damaged works, he creates layered compositions that explore the tension between destruction and transformation, background and figure, void and emergence.
His work was awarded First Prize at the VIII AAMEC Contemporary Photography Award in 2024, a recognition that highlights the technical and conceptual depth of a practice shaped by what is both ephemeral and enduring.
Based in Traslasierra, Roia continues to develop a language where matter, time, and territory converge to give form to presences that invite attentive and contemplative looking.
