A crumpled piece of shiny, metallic gold and blue foil lies on sand dunes in a desert landscape under a clear blue sky with some white clouds.
A rugged rocky shoreline with large dark rocks beside the ocean, featuring a geometric overlay of colored lines forming a diamond shape.
Two people wearing protective suits and masks walking through a desert landscape with mountains in the background.
A man wearing a plaid shirt and blue pants is leaning against a light gray concrete wall with one hand and kicking with his right foot, casting a shadow on the wall. The setting appears to be an urban exterior with large tiled pavement and a dark sha
Person standing on a wooden block in a field, with water splashing from their head into the air during a sunny day with a blue sky and scattered clouds.
A piece of cloth draped over a rock on the shoreline, with the sea and cloudy sky in the background.

PROFILE

Diego Ferrari is a London-based visual artist, photographer, and educator with over 25 years of experience exhibiting and teaching across Europe. His interdisciplinary practice explores the intersection of photography, performance, and spatial experience.
Working across installation, site-specific intervention, and socially engaged art, his recent projects investigate how bodies inhabit and reinterpret space within both the natural and built environment, in the context of the ecological crisis, the age of plastic, and the Anthropocene.
At the core of his practice is an inquiry into the relationship between the body and its environment, in which photography becomes both a performative act and a perceptual tool. His installations and photographic works engage with air, sound, and memory as invisible yet structuring forces.
Ferrari’s approach draws on fine art, spatial theory, and collective memory to reframe the politics of space and material culture, situating the body as an active participant within cultural, urban, and environmental systems.
He teaches Photography as Performance at Central Saint Martins and is Senior Lecturer in Photography at Kingston University. He has presented work and delivered lectures at leading international institutions and co-programmed Urban Encounters at Tate Britain (2012–2019).

Artworks

From the invisible to the visible - Drawing with Air - ( V ) 2021 ©Diego Ferrari
From the invisible to the visible - Drawing with Air - ( V ) 2021 ©Diego Ferrari

Drawing with Air

Black and white photo of rocky mountain landscape with labels: Photography at the top, the paradoxical nature of the line pointing to the mountain ridge, minerals, the body as landscape, and Diego Ferrari at the bottom.
Black and white photo of rocky mountain landscape with labels: Photography at the top, the paradoxical nature of the line pointing to the mountain ridge, minerals, the body as landscape, and Diego Ferrari at the bottom.

The Paradoxical Nature of the Line

Person in a white protective suit crouching on reddish desert sand, with mountains and a cloudy sky in the background.
Person in a white protective suit crouching on reddish desert sand, with mountains and a cloudy sky in the background.

Embodied Space

Walter Benjamin, More than a Sign ©Diego Ferrari
Walter Benjamin, More than a Sign ©Diego Ferrari

More than a Sign - Landscapes of Walter Benjamin

A person standing in a modern interior with red and white walls, one of which has a large embossed 'RES' and the other an orange rectangular panel, seen through a film strip border.
A person standing in a modern interior with red and white walls, one of which has a large embossed 'RES' and the other an orange rectangular panel, seen through a film strip border.

Space at the Centre

A young man standing in a vast open field with mountains in the distance, under a blue sky with scattered clouds, as multicolored pills or capsules are falling around him.
A young man standing in a vast open field with mountains in the distance, under a blue sky with scattered clouds, as multicolored pills or capsules are falling around him.

Wolwedans Foundation - “From the Invisible to the Visible”