Diegx Argote

Diegx Argote (Pudahuel, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile, 1991) is a seropositive photographer, visual artist, performer, and educator. From a dissident and transfeminist corporeality, Argote develops a situated artistic practice that explores relationships between body, memory, territory, and politics within Latin American contexts. Their work moves across photography, performance, video, installation, and writing, activating the body as a living archive, a space of resistance, and a site of political expression. Through performative gestures and visual narratives that circulate between intimate spaces and public environments, Argote examines how social norms, structural violence, and bodily politics shape everyday life and experience. Their practice proposes a poetics of vulnerability and resistance, transforming the body into a place of memory, confrontation, and repair. Argote is a professor at the Instituto de Arte y Comunicación Arcos in Chile and leads art workshops within the 4 a 7 Program of the Servicio Nacional de la Mujer y Equidad de Género (SernamEG), working with girls and children at Albert Einstein School in the municipality of Pudahuel, Santiago. Their practice also includes community-based work with mothers and neighbors from the same district, fostering collective processes centered on gender equality and social rights for women and dissident communities. Engaging with the memories and experiences of Latin American sex-dissident and peripheral bodies, Argote’s work begins from critical, political, autobiographical, and affective reflection. Their work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions in cultural institutions and independent spaces in Chile and internationally.