Tomás Fernández Vértiz (b. 1994, Mexico City, Mexico) is a London based artist who works with the mediums of photography and moving image. Tomás explores landscape, community and migration and the circumstances in which they exist and in which they co-relate, using documentary and the observational as a mechanism.
Artist Statement:
My approach to moving image centres on the observational, attempting to question its foundations, techniques, and the meaning of reality through a camera. The conceptualisation of reality through film has been a constant question since early film history. Taking part in this question, and practice through the use of observational documentary whilst also acknowledging my part as a filmmaker is a key component in the process as a whole. Through image my intention is to immerse the viewer in a sensorial space, in which I invite the audience to question the political reality in which we live. Through exploring the subjects of community and migration, their pasts, presents and futures, and the ways in which they interact within each-other, I aim to highlight their importance in the contemporary era.
For any enquiries on prints, or any general enquiries please contact:
tomfdzv@gmail.com
(+44) 07477468549