Daria Blum

Concerned with performance in its broadest sense, Daria Blum portrays a range of insubordinate female archetypes, multiplying ‘her self’ across video, music, text, photography, and installation to suggest how ‘breaking character’ can destabilize entrenched forms of engagement with the world. Conflating the stage with ‘real’ life, Blum mythologizes her own history as an artist, and expands everyday events into full-fledged dramas, drawing on theatre and autotheory to comment on the politics of self-objectification and contemporary modes of mediation. With an episodic approach, alter egos are killed off, resurrected or referenced through the sampling, looping, and remixing of leftover materials and digital debris.