Daria Blum’s (b. 1992; Lives and works in London) photographic prints depict figures caught in moments where identity appears unsettled or multiplied. Her images often involve staged scenes in which the subject confronts an estranged version of themselves, producing a quiet tension between appearance and intention. The photographs operate through careful attention to posture, gaze, and framing, revealing how the self can be constructed through acts of looking and being looked at.
Language enters her work as fragments, scripts, or gestures that extend the images into a wider field of suggestion. These elements create layers of address and authorship, inviting one to consider how voice and presence are formed, displaced, or refracted through representation. Blum’s prints hold these ambiguities in suspension, shaping a visual vocabulary attuned to the instability of self-presentation.

Daria Blum was awarded the Claridge‘s Royal Academy Art Prize in 2024, followed by a solo exhibition at Claridge‘s Art Space, London, the same year. Her most recent performance "I’m So Disappointed In You" took place at Tate Modern, London, in 2025. The artist has performed at CAPC Musée d‘Art Con- temporain, Bordeaux (2024) and Roskilde Festival, Denmark (2023).