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Current
HOME SCREEN, marytwo, Luzern
6 February – 28 March
Open Saturdays 1-6 pm, and by appointment
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While the artist’s visual presence—whether in person or in image—is a constant throughout her practice, there is no trace of her face or body in the site-specific intervention realised at marytwo. In HOME SCREEN, lamps, projections, screens, and a series of framed works are quite literally the sole actors in a bodiless play.
While trying to train my attention span against senseless feeds, I start focusing on a flickering side lamp in my living room. The event lasts longer and longer, becomes unsettling, then pathetic: what does this lamp want from me? I turn it off and the aggressive main light takes over, leaves me hanging in a shifted, cold atmosphere.
The installation’s props of assembled lamps and screens are generically familiar: objects without a distinctive design identity, mass-produced to artificially determine the ambience of interior spaces. Here, they are staged precisely as such, asserting their presence and claiming theatricality through a calibrated sonic and visual choreography of on-and-off switching, punctuated by sudden yet charmingly melodic synth keys that divide the installation into chapters. A roaming spotlight screens and frames every detail, and as elements of the scenery are alternately assigned the performing roles, shared notions of singular personality and perspective are disrupted. [...]
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Excerpt of a text by Monica Unser
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Info
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From Lucerne, CH. dariablum[at]gmail[dot]com​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Education
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2023
Royal Academy Schools, London
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2017
Central Saint Martins, London
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Performances, Solo Shows
2026
Redux II: I'm So Disappointed In You, Performance, Halmet, Zurich (P)
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2025
I'm So Disappointed In You (Redux), organised by GROTTO, Kaiser-Friedrich-Gedächtniskirche, Berlin (P)
Bandstand Performance, curated by Ben Broome, Myatt's Fields Bandstand, London (P)
I'm So Disappointed In You, Tate Modern, London (P)
A Woman Like That, The Door at Palmer Gallery, London
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2024
Drip Drip Point Warp Spin Buckle Rot, Claridge's ArtSpace, London
On Pointing On, Festival Académie des Mutantes, CAPC Musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux (P)
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2023
You Say Vol. 2, Roskilde Festival, Denmark (P)
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2022
Circumbendibus Vol. 2 at Ohh... Youth! (/w Guendalina Cerruti), V.O. Curations, London (P)
Circumbendibus Vol. 1, Royal Academy of Arts, London (P)
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2021
Daria Blum at the Averard, The Averard Hotel, London (P)
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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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2026
NOT I, Capitain Petzel, Berlin
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2025
Finalement, c'est quoi un canton?, Zabriskie, Geneva
ANOXIA, curated by Shivers Only, ZÉRUÌ, London
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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, Rose Easton, 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
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2020
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
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
Temporalities, Lethaby Gallery, London
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2017
Jahresausstellung, Kunstmuseum Luzern
Intersections in Dance, Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto
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Residencies & Awards
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2025
Claridge's x RA Schools Prize
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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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