Enter the sensorium of Daria Martin’s magical, mystical, mythical film worlds in this first ever survey of works presented in Australia.
Working between theatre, design and art, Martin’s hypnotic 16 mm films create a magical, mystical, mythical world, activating the spaces of the dream and the unconscious. In this exhibition, created especially for ACCA, Martin presented her largest ever survey of films together with her grandmother’s diary notes, drawings and paintings. Significant works, including Birds (2001), Wintergarden (2005-11), and Harpstrings and Lava (2007), were presented within colour coded stages, all leading to the final encompassing film: One of the Things that Makes Me Doubt. This new work brought together outtakes from ten of Martin’s earlier works and fresh interviews with actors who featured in them, all gently revealing parts of themselves while discussing their filmic personae, the nature of artistic labour and Martin’s fictions.
Daria Martin was born in San Francisco but has been based in London since 2002. She has had solo exhibitions at the Stedelijk in Amsterdam (2006), the Kunstverein in Hamburg, Kunsthalle Zurich (both 2005), and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2009), which toured to the New Museum, New York and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Martin has had works shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Tate Modern, London, and the Pompidou Centre, Paris. She is a senior lecturer at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at the University of Oxford.
Curator: Juliana Engberg
Exhibition Manager: Jane Rhodes
