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Daria Blum: Drip Drip Point Warp Spin Buckle Rot

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24 September – 25 October

Claridge's ArtSpace, Brooks Mews, London W1K 4HR​

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Live Performances

Friday, 11. October, 7.15pm

Thursday, 17. October, 7.15pm

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RSVP: artspace@claridges.co.uk

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Her first UK solo exhibition, Daria Blum: Drip Drip Point Warp Spin Buckle Rot, transforms Claridge’s ArtSpace with an enveloping audiovisual installation, drawing on Blum’s research into muscle memory, institutional power and degradation as they relate to dance, architecture, and intergenerational female relationships.

 

The exhibition centres around a three-channel video piece which follows a fictional character through deserted rooms and corridors of a declining 1970’s office building. The protagonist comes across a series of choreographies and gestures she picks up from various sources: black and white portraits of Blum’s late grandmother, the Ukrainian ballerina Daria Nyzankiwska, archival recordings of dance rehearsals, and footage of a 2022 performance by Blum herself.

 

Through a series of live performances, Blum investigates the gesture of the pointed finger, using it as a tool through which to claim attention, blame, criticise, and cast a spell.

The exhibition was made possible through the 2023 Claridge’s Royal Academy Schools Art Prize, awarded to Blum by judges Yinka Shonibare CBE, RA and Eva Rothschild RA.

www.claridges.co.uk/claridges-artspace/

 

 

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Info

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From Lucerne, CH. Lives and works in London, UK.

dariablum[at]gmail[dot]com

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Education

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2019-23

   Royal Academy Schools, London

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2014-17

   Central Saint Martins, London

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Performances, Solos, Duos

 

2024

   On Pointing On, Festival Académie des Mutantes, CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux

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2023

   You Say Vol. 2, Roskilde Festival, Denmark

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2022

   Circumbendibus Vol. 2 at Ohh... Youth! (/w Guendalina Cerruti), V.O. Curations, London

   Circumbendibus Vol. 1, Royal Academy of Arts, London

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2021

   Daria Blum at the Averard, The Averard Hotel, London

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2020

   I'll Be Here If You Need Me (/w Julian Blum), Ahoi, Luzern

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2019

   Utting Orners (/w Yohei Chimura), Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo

   QUAGGA (/w Julian Blum), Neustadtstrasse 24a, Luzern

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2018

   That Would Be Me, Il Colorificio, Milano

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Selected Group Shows

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2024

   With Urgency (/w Guendalina Cerruti and Mary Stephenson), Ilenia, London

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2023

   RA Schools Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London

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2022

   Who Are You Wearing?, Kupfer, London

   CIRCA Class of 2022, Piccadilly Circus, London

   Premiums Interim 3, Royal Academy of Arts, London

   Daria In Semper Aeternum @ Louis Morlæ – Machinochrome Dreams, Moarain House, London

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2021

   Endless Bazaar, Klub Kegelbahn, Luzern

   DISCO, Fitzrovia Chapel, London

   Com’è bello far l’amore da Trieste in giù, CANALE MILVA x Lumpenstation, Online

   Ai Mi Tagai Lottery Exhibition, Youkobo Art Space, Tokyo

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2020

   You're in a computer game, Max!, Skelf.org.uk, Online

   Marigolds, Harlesden High Street, London

   Hold On, The Koppel Project Central, London

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2019

   Flashing and Flashing!, MAXXI Museum x Il Colorificio, Rome

   Euro Femmes, Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga

   Art Night London x Hervisions – Fast Line, Walthamstow, London

   Look what the cat dragged in, De Pimlico Project, London

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2018

   CACOTOPIA 03, Annka Kultys Gallery, London

   TBCTV, Somerset House, London

   What Unites Us, Club Alpbach x Austrian Cultural Forum, Austrian Embassy, London

   Temporalities, Lethaby Gallery, London

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2017

   Jahresausstellung, Kunstmuseum Luzern

   Intersections in Dance, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto

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Residencies and Awards

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2024

   Fluxus Magnetic Residency, CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux

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2019

   Youkobo Art Space Tokyo, LTYE Programme, Artist in Residence

   Acme/CSM Associate Studio Programme, Associate Artist

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