Darya Diamond (b. 1991) is a Mexican-American artist working across print, sculpture, audio and film. She explores literal and symbolic figurations of the body as a primordial workplace.
Her practice is ritually and theoretically rooted in methods of reproduction, regenerating and renegotiating the promise of transactional intimacy, care, and invisible labour through moldmaking, casting, and printmaking. Utlizing cast forms, religious iconography and pornography, Diamond’s work is a portrait of the body as a site of mutual aid, power, pleasure, and labour.
Diamond received her MFA from Goldsmiths University of London, and her BA from Hampshire College in Massachusetts. Her work has been featured internationally in numerous group and solo exhibitions at Sebastian Gladstone, Piloto Pardo, Pippy Houldsworth, Saatchi Gallery, Tree Art Museum and more.
Eat the Roses is Darya Diamond's second solo exhibition at Piloto Pardo, London, presenting block prints and silkscreens on duvets and archival paper that draw on devotional imagery to trace ritual, ornament and the body.
For this exhibition Diamond expands these ideas beyond print into a sculptural installation, recreating the standardised intimacy of the hotel or motel room, lamps cast in soap, a bible, a carpet. The exhibition space becomes a site of recontextualisation, a mutable framework reflecting the ever-shifting environments that shape sex work.
Diamond's practice, grounded in an ethos of care, transforms the obscured realms of sexual and domestic labor into a compelling visual narrative, one that fuses the restorative and psychosexual, the therapeutic and erotic, and ultimately questioning the distinction between site and stage.
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