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Sebastian Gladstone is pleased to present Primordial Workplace, a solo exhibition of sculptures, prints, and mixed media work by London-based artist Darya Diamond. The exhibition will open on Saturday, September 17th with an opening reception from 7-10pm, and will run through Saturday, October 22nd. Darya Diamond is a Mexican-American artist who explores various forms of invisible labor. Primordial Workplace surveys embodied labor through the lens of her personal experience as a prostitute. Diamond’s practice is rooted in methods of reproduction, and the re-appropriation of ready-made materials to propose the body as a site of care, power, pleasure, and labor.
The reproduction of invisible labor, such as sex work, is a political gesture whose visual language is almost entirely derived from the contexts in which the artist’s labor occurs. Through personal surveillance footage, pornography stills, and the reproduction of items used in in-person...More
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Sebastian Gladstone is pleased to present Primordial Workplace, a solo exhibition of sculptures, prints, and mixed media work by London-based artist Darya Diamond. The exhibition will open on Saturday, September 17th with an opening reception from 7-10pm, and will run through Saturday, October 22nd. Darya Diamond is a Mexican-American artist who explores various forms of invisible labor. Primordial Workplace surveys embodied labor through the lens of her personal experience as a prostitute. Diamond’s practice is rooted in methods of reproduction, and the re-appropriation of ready-made materials to propose the body as a site of care, power, pleasure, and labor.
The reproduction of invisible labor, such as sex work, is a political gesture whose visual language is almost entirely derived from the contexts in which the artist’s labor occurs. Through personal surveillance footage, pornography stills, and the reproduction of items used in in-person...More
