Tomás Díaz Cedeño (Mexico b .1983) is a Mexico City-based artist whose practice examines the expressive range material objects can embody when forced into previously unknown relationships. His physically evocative formal explorations connote an inherent mysticism, recalling alternative representation of the body, nature’s organic structures, or amulets of peripheral systems of belief; and he examines these relations through a delicate, tenuous — even grotesque— visual language rooted in a committed, intimate dialogue with the materials he uses.