Diana Tavadian is a Canadian artist, currently based in London, where she is pursuing her BA in Fine Arts at UAL Chelsea College of Arts. Her work weaves through the intimate borders between the human figure and fragmented memory, exploring abstracted gaze and abjection. Mostly consisting of paintings and drawings, the work revolves around the themes of isolation and the distorted contortion of the human form, hovering between tenderness and rupture.

The works in this exhibition embody the current stage and topics of her research. Always transforming and reconfiguring, the paintings and forms mirror the inspiration gathered from literature, music and film. The installation, Walk The Abyss, Forever In Search for Gaze, was born from the desire to confront the ambiguity and complexity of connections and emotions. Figures are distorted, wounded, fragmented; the text bleeds, and the gaze is heavy; the narrative open-ended and simple, yet holding such emotional intensity.

Drawing from her ongoing research and inspirations, the theme of emotional ambiguity, the complexity of connections and the isolation of the human experience in various forms of media, she creates these complex bodies of work, exposing their insides yet hiding them behind a veil. Influences from Jeff Wall, Oda Iselin Soderland, and Gustav Klimt echo through these works, as does her engagement with photography and film, particularly in how they frame time, gesture, and silence. From philosophical essays to astounding fictional literature, film soundtracks to famous musical artists, all these influences surround the work and create an organism of research and an offering of intimacy, of discomfort, of unravelling unending stories. Through layering, distortion, and repetition, a world completely unique and isolated invites the viewer to linger and connect through their shared experience of being Human.

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