Diana Al-Hadid at Dieu Donné: Online
Past exhibition
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On the occasion of Diana Al-Hadid's first solo exhibition with the gallery, Kasmin presents an inside look at the artist's new body of paper pulp works, developed as part of her Lab Grant Residency at Dieu Donné, New York. Known for her evocative transformations of industrial materials such as fiberglass, gypsum, steel, and bronze, Al-Hadid’s works engage with thematic references across the fields of antiquity, folklore, architecture, manuscripts, cartography, and cosmology, among other subjects, as a way of communing with the present.
With this body of work, presented exclusively online, Al-Hadid introduces paper to her artistic vocabulary. Dieu Donné’s Lab Grant Program is renowned for providing a single artist per year with an unparalleled opportunity to work in-depth in hand papermaking. For this series, Al-Hadid blends layers of pigmented paper together until material and substrate become one, much like Al-Hadid’s widely-celebrated sculptures and relief paintings.
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"Diana’s process and use of materials lent themselves naturally to the process of hand papermaking. She spent the initial sessions to fully understand the potential of the medium and then, in collaboration with Dieu Donné expert papermakers, Diana mastered several techniques such as pulp painting, stenciling, and blowout—which creates marks using water pressure."—Serena Trizzino, Executive Director, Dieu Donné
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"Diana was able to create incredibly fine and detailed lines in her pulp works. Papermaking is a collaborative process and our studio reached its fullest potential while working with Diana."—Serena Trizzino, Executive Director, Dieu Donné
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About the Artist
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