Profile in Ecstasy

The film was created for Profile in Ecstasy, an exhibition at Dallas Contemporary curated by Glenn Adamson. Presented across multiple large-scale projections throughout the galleries, the video form an immersive visual environment surrounding the furniture works of artist Chris Wolston. Installed on catwalk-like platforms, the objects perform almost as bodies, while the films imagine the interior world that animates them--a speculative creative universe unfolding inside the artist’s mind.

Rather than documenting the works, the moving images function as their psychological counterpart: shifting landscapes, gestures, and apparitions that expand design beyond physical form into sensation and fantasy. Accompanied by a continuous 45-minute soundscape composed from layered environmental and studio sounds, the projections transform the exhibition into a cinematic atmosphere where object, body, and imagination dissolve into one another. The viewer does not simply look at the furniture, but enters the emotional and perceptual space from which it emerges.

Film and Direction: David Sierra @davidsierra_

Art and Sculpture: Chris Wolston @chriswolston @thefutureperfect

Models: Lorena Robledo @lorenarobledo.mod
Nia Bernal @niabernalf 
Juan Manuel Perdomo  @juanma_ap

Makeup: Paula Restrepo @paularestrepo.makeup

Sylist: Gingersito & Jose Velasquez @gingersito @josevelasqzc

Audiovisual Production: Radha León @radhaleon

Post Production: Sierraleon Studios @sierraleon.studios

Documental: Camila Estrada @camiestradaa

DAVID SIERRA is a New York–based, Colombian-born visual artist and filmmaker working across photography, fashion film, and audiovisual media. Raised in Medellín, Colombia, the vast landscapes of the Andes, rich biodiversity, and the vibrancy of its people formed the earliest foundations of his visual sensibility. Over the past decade, extensive travel has become central to his artistic development. Immersed in diverse cultural contexts, Sierra has deepened his understanding of the contrasts, tensions, and expansive possibilities within human expression. This sustained engagement with difference informs his practice, shaping a multicultural visual language that reflects on identity as fluid, constructed, and performative.

His work explores identity, beauty, design and human presence through cinematic portraiture and spatial narratives. Inspired by biodiversity and the intelligence of nature, he reflects on difference as strength and on personal choice as an act of self-authorship. Sierra constructs immersive visual worlds that oscillate between documentary realism and the oneiric, integrating body, space, and materiality as interconnected symbolic systems. With a refined sensitivity to light and form, he often sculpts the body through gesture and fashion, empowering the subject as both image and author. He frequently collaborates with artists and designers, documenting their creative processes as extensions of identity and cultural production, making videos and photography of their studios and final projects. His ongoing work includes a documentary project examining contemporary masculinities through an intimate and cinematic lens.

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