Artist: Diane Dal-Pra
Exhibition title: Remaining Parts
Venue: Galerie Derouillon, Paris, France
Date: October 18 – November 26, 2022
Photography: Grégory Copitet / all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Galerie Derouillon, Paris
Logical moves, inevitable result There are just some slow engulfment Evaporate overnight
A hairpine has fallen on the green ground Can I talk better about what’s gone than showing the remaining parts ?
Soft moistness, enveloping humidity From solid to gaseous
It’s a never ending crossing
And all that remains
still – robust – heavy
Drowned into the massive blue shadows Our peaceful wastelands
Tender totems of our motionless slips Colours of our floating passages
Text : Diane Dal-Pra
Diane Dal-Pra’s psychological assemblages reveal multiple layers of our intimacy. Focusing on our daily life rituals, she examines
our relationship with objects and how they become poetic supports of introspection.
The exhibition «Remaining Parts» strips away its psychological assemblages accentuating a sense of dissolution and the physical sensations of the material.
We move through silent wastelands, remnants of a vanished moment. Her muffled atmospheres capture the ambivalence of simple but very introspective solitary moments, almost dizzying and engulfing. Diane Dal-Pra carries us through an endless insomniac time in which a fake quietness gives way to ominous sensation. Silence plays a key role in the exhibition as well as in the composition of the paintings, first soothing breathing and then putting in tension.
We dive into a riddle sharing with Bachelard’s Water and Dreams an aqueous imagination of matter, where a drop of water could dissolve the night. Text : Marion Coindeau.
