Sofía Fernández Díaz: cuerpo, 2025

Sep 16, 2025

A limited edition to benefit Re/Match, Chicago.
- Sofía Fernández Díaz
  cuerpo, 2025
  12 x 11.25 inches
  Intaglio on Rives BFK
  Variable edition of 20
  Signed and dated on front.
  $750
  
  Purchase here
  via Re/Match
  
  All sales benefit Re/Match, Chicago
About the Edition

Sofía Fernández Díaz’s limited edition intaglio print, cuerpo, emerged from a series of quasi abstract drawings of erosion, sediment, and seeds the artist created during her recent time in Oaxaca, Mexico. With precision, the artist etched the layered renderings to three copper plates which then comprised a single composite image. A process of translation, she considered through every imprint and trace: what gets left behind after a transformation in order to make something else possible? Is this image cellular (micro) or is it cosmological (macro)?
In cuerpo, rich raw sienna blends with earthy purple inks to reveal the activity of making itself: the process of blending multiple colors onto a single print is called à la poupée; and in the studio, techniques such as “sugar lift” and “spit bite” captured the artist’s painted marks directly onto the plate, allowing happenstance and organic processes to determine the final matrix.

Each print in the edition of 20 is unique, as the circular plates were rotated with each turn of the press.

Fernández Díaz is known for sculptures that are exploratory—like this print process, following materials—but this intaglio print is more connected to the sketchbook work that underpins her practice. An illumination of her research, memories, and intuitive observation, the print serves as both botanical study and spiritual mapping, evoking cycles of growth, resilience, and transformation.

Sales of this print benefit Re/Match’s 2026 grants to artists. Click here to purchase through Re/Match.
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Sofía Fernández Díaz, cuerpo, (1/20), 2025

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Artists
Sofía Fernández Díaz

Sofía Fernández Díaz’s process is fueled by an intimate knowledge of ancient and modern processes, combining experimentation, intuition, and play to discover new and unexpected commonalities between unrelated materials. Her familiarity with naturally occurring patterns and formations allows her to recreate these systems using beeswax, fibers, and natural dyes. From Mexico City, she has engaged in exchanges with artisans across Mexico throughout the past decade. Fernández Diaz has exhibited and performed at Goldfinch, Chicago Art Department, EXPO Chicago, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo (Oaxaca, MX), and ACE (Buenos Aires, AR), among others.

Fernández Díaz received an MFA in Fiber & Material Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and was recently named a New City "Breakthrough Artist," 2025.
Re/Match is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that provides financial support to visual artists living and making in Chicago to encourage the production of new work, support the development and sustainability of their arts practice, and celebrate the vibrancy and energy of the visual arts field in Chicago. Rooted in artist advocacy, Re/Match collaborates with artists who are pushing the boundaries of their visual mediums: whether by reimagining physical materialities, building space for exchange and engagement, and/or working collaboratively with fellow artists and creatives. To date, Re/Match has distributed $90,000 in unrestricted funds to a total of nine Chicago artists, who each received $10,000.

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Sofía Fernández Díaz: cuerpo, 2025

A limited edition to benefit Re/Match, Chicago.

About the Edition

Sofía Fernández Díaz

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