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.
Darya Diamond's printed textiles, juxtaposed with imagery of glistening kitchen tiles unfold across the artist's solo exhibition, Roly Poly, at Import Export's new London venue Salon. The exhibition comprises new work in textile, porcelain and sculpture.
Like the sweet layers of jam and vanilla curd of the Roly-Poly, it peels away at the hidden and invisible essence of the unknown, where liberation emerges only through sex, through performativity.
Diamond's practice is rooted in relational ecosystems acknowledging the pervasive nature of female labour, intertwining sex work and domestic labour into a singular, unified visual language by presenting the remnants of labour not through detached consumption but as a visceral spectacle of everyday objects navigating complicity, power, and vulnerability.
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