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Daria Blum
and now there’s no one to rebel against and apparently no one to impress anyways both are bad reasons for making art, 2025Archival pigment print on Photo Rag, UV print on museum glass, coloured lighting gel, tape, uniqueSigned and dated verso on frame61 x 53 cm
24 x 20.9 inchesB-DBLUM-.25-0002Further images
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...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 graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in 2023 and was the recipient of the inaugural Claridge’s Art Prize, awarded by Marina Abramović. 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 Contemporain, Bordeaux (2024) and Roskilde Festival, Denmark (2023).
