Ilenia

Daria Blum’s practice spans video, music, photography and performance. Trained as a dancer, she stages her own body in narrative installations populated by fictional characters, digital alter-egos and cultural stereotypes. Her work examines the staging of the self, artifice, and body politics within a media-saturated culture. Through a humorous yet critical approach, she probes the shifting terrain between sincerity and caricature, the intimate and the constructed. The photographic installation, comprising film stills from the video documentation of the artist’s 2025 performance I’m So Disappointed in You, foregrounds the light-based props integral to her performative and sculptural practice. Through these visual traces of performance, the work interrogates the layered relationship between performance, sculpture, and its documentation.

Daria Blum graduated from the Royal Academy Schools in London (2023). She has recently performed at Tate Modern (London, 2025), Roskilde Festival (2023), V.O Curations, Rose Easton and Fitzrovia Chapel. Her work has been exhibited at the MAXXI Museum in Rome (as part of a collaboration with Il Colorificio), the Latvian National Museum of Art in Riga, Piccadilly Circus (CIRCA Class of 2022), and at CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain in Bordeaux. She has participated in several residencies, including Youkobo Art Space (Tokyo) and the Magnetic residency program (2024) at CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux with the support of Fluxus Art Project.