Matías Sauter Morera

Matías Sauter Morera is a Costa Rican artist who divides his time between Berlin and Costa Rica. Constantly moving between physical and social worlds, Sauter explores different levels of identity, using photography as a means of confronting and creating new realities. In Pegamachos, his most recent body of work, the artist uses artificial intelligence to generate images that reimagine gay culture in Costa Rica and provide a platform for conversations about previously censored queer histories.

Sauter Morera's photographs have been shown in various galleries and festivals—especially in Latin America, like the Despacio Gallery, the GuatePhoto Festival in Guatemala, and the Veinti4/Siete Gallery in San José—and reside in the collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody. Recent features appear in Costa Rica's Orgullo Magazine and the Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles. Specializing in art-documentary essays, portraiture, and fashion, he has also been commissioned by renowned brands and published in international magazines like Condé Nast Traveler, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, and Stern.