I first encountered Diego Guerrero’s “The Sessions” earlier this year, on the recommendation of the artist Bhanu Pratap. The two artists share an interest in combining architectural structures with disastrously transformable bodies, but in Guerrero's CAD-like sequences, house transforms as much as body. Figure and architecture remodel each other—a slapstick feedback loop of sudden impacts.

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In one sequence, some crucial piece of a room might vanish, throwing a body so off-course that it loses crucial pieces of its own. In another,  decorating efforts might go so awry that a jammy-yolk body becomes a wall's permanent feature, like chewing gum under a desk. At certain moments, architectural surfaces wink away their opacity, teasing other layers of schematic representation.

 

Diego Guerrero's exploration of comics and cartoon form in “The Sessions” put both to work in the service of architectural projection and imagination. You can find more of his work at his online portfolio.

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—Tony Wei Ling