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

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

Selected Group Shows

Lives and works in London

See also:
Daria Martin video interview