Diane Appaix-Castro
Diane Appaix-Castro, Into the Dark, Multimedia experiential installation, 2021
Diane Appaix-Castro, Subsiste, Multimedia experiential installation, 2020
Diane Appaix-Castro, Chez Vous, Chez Nous, Multimedia installation, 2022
Diane Appaix-Castro, Déjate Callar, Multimedia experiential installation, 2022
Diane Appaix-Castro is a French and Spanish multimedia experiential installation artist living in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was born in Paris, France, and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She holds an MFA in Studio Art from Tulane University and a BFA from the New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University. Diane also directs an exhibition space, Studio Appaix, in a New Orleans basement. In 2020 she was awarded first place in DIY Art for the show titled Reconnecting in Quarantine at Tulane Hillel. In 2021 Diane received the SLA Graduate Student Summer Research and Write-Up Fellowship Grant and participated in the Southern Heat Exchange Online Residency.
Her work is strongly informed by her experience living at the intersection of three distinct cultures as well as her interests in science, philosophy, and religion as systems humans use to answer questions about our place in the world.
Diane aims to push the boundaries of human understanding of what is real and alive by putting into question the credibility and accuracy of our senses. She hopes to push the viewer, or partaker, to see the world as larger than their own experience of it and to become aware of the unknown.