Diana’s paintings and works on paper can be seen as a response to the world, a re-ordering of memory, images, peripheries of old illustrations, lost pixels, the trailing edge of fabric, a discarded toy. Old things. In these, Diana finds a lingering promise, they give back to you a value roughly equivalent to the time taken to deliberately notice them.
Bleached, saturated, uncomfortable, just a little bit tired. The works tread a delicate line between beauty and ugliness. They are experiments in how colour, lines and shapes fall together. That they exist at all, their furry, glitched, obsolete painterly surfaces exposed by the light of contemporary, digital existence is absurd. But for Diana, painting is a pause. A way of noticing discarded details. A means to impart slowness.
Her work has been featured in Curatorial Volume 1, and her most recent solo exhibition was shown at Canberra Contemporary Art Space.
Website: www.dianaellinger.com
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