Eva Díaz Torres

Eva Díaz Torres (1943 – 14 February 1993) was a Uruguayan ceramicist, who specialised in the production of Raku ware. A member of the Tupamaros, she was imprisoned for her political beliefs from 1972 to 1974.

Biography Díaz was born in Tarrasa, Barcelona in 1943. She was the daughter of the sculptor Eduardo Díaz Yepes (es) and Olimpia Torres (es), and the granddaughter of the master of constructivism Joaquín Torres García. She emigrated with her family to Paris in 1946, and returned to Montevideo in 1947, settling in Uruguay.

Díaz's concern for social justice drove her to join the Movimiento de Liberación Nacional-Tupamaros. In 1972 she was arrested and prosecuted by the military dictatorship. She was confined in a detention centre for political prisoners until the end of 1974. After being released from prison, she emigrated with his family first to Costa Rica for a brief stay, and then to Barcelona. during this period, Díaz expanded her knowledge of and experimentation with Raku ware, developing a series of sculptural pieces and becoming a prominent Uruguayan exponent of the technique. In March 2018, an anthological exhibition of Díaz's work was held at the Gurvich Museum in Montevideo. Curated by her daughters Jimena, a curator, and Micaela Perera Díaz, the show featured fifty ceramics from her rakú technique body of work.