DVAA Member since 2023
Dilmar Mauricio Gamero Santos
WEBSITE: www.dilmargamero.com
About:
Dilmar Gamero is a Peruvian-born, Latino, Philadelphia-based visual artist, educator, and researcher with studies in audiovisual communication, philosophy, theology, and art education. He specializes in documentary production, fine art photography, alternative and experimental image-making processes. He has been focused on the cultural and religious identity of Peruvian rituals, lecturing, producing a book, and exhibiting in Peru, Latin America, and the US. His latest research uses experimental photography and new media on Elfreth’s Alley historical archives and data production to recover alternative stories.
Dilmar received a Ph.D. in Documentary Arts and Visual Research from the School of Film and Media Arts - Temple University, an MFA in Photography from Tyler School of Art, and a BA in Audiovisual Communication from the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.
Artist Statement:
My art practice incorporates photography, film, new media, and collaborative work, transcending the specifics of the medium and offering a new understanding of the world, stressing the conceptual art-making capacities of each form.
My creative research is related to my work and academic studies in philosophy, theology, and visual arts. I merge traditional and digital image-making processes to explore the materiality and physicality of multidimensional images, objects, and environments. My work is focused on the representation and interpretation of memory, time and space, identity, gender, ephemerality and abstraction, rituality, religiosity, storytelling, dynamics of the individual and the collective, and the presence and absence of minority groups in historical archives.
