Diana Tavadian is a Canadian artist, currently based in London, where
she is pursuing her BA in Fine Arts at UAL Chelsea College of Arts. Her
work weaves through the intimate borders between the human figures
and fragmented memory, exploring abstracted gaze and abjection.
Mostly consisting of paintings and drawings, the work revolves around
the themes of isolation and the distorted contortion of the human form,
hovering between tenderness and rupture.
The works in this exhibition embody the current stage and topics of her
research. Always transforming and reconfiguring, the paintings and
forms mirror the inspiration gathered from literature, music and film. The 
installation, Walk The Abyss, Forever In Search for Gaze, was born from
the desire to confront the ambiguity and complexity of connections and
emotions. Figures are distorted, wounded, fragmented; the text bleeds,
and the gaze is heavy; the narrative open-ended and simple, yet holding
such emotional intensity.
Drawing from her ongoing research and inspirations, the theme of
emotional ambiguity, the complexity of connections and the isolation of
the human experience in various forms of media, she creates these
complex bodies of work, exposing their insides yet hiding them behind a
veil. Influences from Jeff Wall, Oda Iselin Soderland, and Gustav Klimt
echo through these works, as does her engagement with photography
and film, particularly in how they frame time, gesture, and silence. From
philosophical essays to astounding fictional literature, film soundtracks
to famous musical artists, all these influences surround the work and 
create an organism of research and an offering of intimacy, of
discomfort, of unravelling unending stories. Through layering, distortion,
and repetition, a world completely unique and isolated invites the viewer
to linger and connect through their shared experience of being Human.