DIEGO FERNANDEZ
CURATORIAL WORK
EXHIBITIONS
PEOPLE WATCHING, ILLUSTRATING HAMPSTEAD. Presenting Roberta Paladino in Exhibition
Nov 2025, Hampstead Community Centre, London UK
Presenting a Hampstead illustration exhibition of artist Roberta Paladino @robin_bluebird, who has spent the last 7 years sitting at cafes, swimming at the Lido and walking the Heath, observing and documenting the people of Hampstead, through a new, unique gaze, as a non-local looking in. This results in a different portrayal of Hampstead and its inhabitants.
The exhibition features an extensive body of work, accumulated over time, focusing on the area and exploring different pictorial styles.
Curated by CSM curation graduate Diego Fernandez Alvarez del Castillo, also a non local that works in Hampstead Village and a close figure to the artist. The exhibition explores the work of Roberta Paladino through an acadedmic framing using concepts like Baudelaires and Lauren Elkin's "Flaneur & Flaneuse", Ray Oldenbergs concept of "Third Space" and Guy Debord's "La Derive", framing the work as a new way to undertand urban observation and the politics of representation, interpretation, storytelling and observing the urban space and society through a unique artistic gaze using illustration as a medium.
THE TABLE of CONTENTS.
At perediza issue IV launch event
Sept 2025, Shreeji News Marylebone, London UK
The “Table of Contents” is a photoshoot and a physical installation created, ideated and unveiled as an accompanying piece for the launch of the humanities and art magazine perediza issue IV on September 13th 2025. The installation comprises an amalgamation of found objects that reflect on the idea of the consumption of content and the representation of ideas, thoughts and personalities of the contributors to the publication, framed under “Assemblage Theory” and my own passion as a curator for tables and the research of mundanity and everyday life.
team:
curation, creative concept, set design & art direction by Diego Fernandez
production by Aryana Arian
photography by Polina Kravchenko
All rights reserved to perediza magazine ltd.
Photos: @PolinaKravchenko,
RADICAL PLAY,
In Collaboration with Radical Beauty Project and Culture Device
Dec 2023, The Street Central Saint Martins, London UK
Radical Play was an experiment in curatorial authorship, collective care, and the aesthetics of agency. Spanning three photoshoots—one of which was lost to theft—a public panel, a closing performance, and a suite of commissioned merchandise, the project navigated the labour, politics, and ethics of working with performers, artists, models, and actors with Down Syndrome. Positioned at the intersection of editorial practice, fashion image-making, and neurodivergent representation, the exhibition emerged from a sustained collaboration between shortlisted postgraduate students of the Culture, Criticism and Curation programme and the Radical Beauty Project, an initiative of Culture Device.
What began as an inquiry into performance, identity, and representation evolved into a curatorial methodology shaped by adaptation, improvisation, and collective responsiveness.
The resulting exhibition took over The Street at Central Saint Martins with unapologetic visibility, extending onto the building’s glass façade as a guerrilla intervention. More than its outputs, Radical Play made transparent the conditions of its making: emergent, contingent, and fiercely committed to reimagining who gets to be called an artist—and on what terms.
Photography: Daniel Housley
