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Tate Triennial 2006: New British Art
1 March - 14 May 2006
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Daria Martin

Daria Martin, Wintergarden, 2005. Still from 16mm projection. Courtesy The Artist. Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and De La Warr Pavilion
Daria Martin
Wintergarden, 2005
(Still from 16mm projection)
Courtesy The Artist. Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and De La Warr Pavilion
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Daria Martin's films act as expanded tableaux vivant, staging relationships between performers in particular situations borrowed from dance, sports and entertainment. Her use of low-tech materials for costumes and props exposes the artifice of the fantasy world created in the work.

For the Triennial Martin will be showing her film Wintergarden. The piece is set in the newly renovated De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill-on-Sea in East Sussex. Female performers act out a narrative loosely based on the Greek myth of Persephone's abduction by Hades. The story is set against the backdrop of the bleak English coast and the calm serenity of this Modernist 'people's palace'.

Biography

Born in 1973 in San Francisco
2000 University of California
1995 Phi Beta Kappa, Yale University

Selected Solo Shows
2005 Five Fights, Kunstverein, Hamburg
Daria Martin, Kunsthalle Zurich
Soft Materials, The Showroom, London
2003 Daria Martin: Art Now Lightbox, Tate Britain, London
2001 Birds, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Selected Group Shows
2005 British Art Show 6, Hayward Gallery Touring
2004 In the Palace at 4am, Alison Jacques Gallery, London
2003 The Moderns, Museo Castello di Rivoli, Turin

Lives and works in London


See also:
Daria Martin video interview

 
 
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Daria Martin, Wintergarden, 2005. Still from 16mm projection. Courtesy The Artist. Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and De La Warr Pavilion
Daria Martin
Wintergarden, 2005
(Still from 16mm projection)
Courtesy The Artist. Commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and De La Warr Pavilion