스킵네비게이션

Born 1985 in Riga, Latvia

Lives in Paris, France

 

Daiga GRANTINA, INN, 2020, Felt, wood, silicone, ink, 270×180×70cm

 

Daiga GRANTINA works with large, vast sculptures that inhabit the floor, hang from the ceiling, and climb up the walls. Their physical presence has a tendency to take over the space they are situated in. GRANTINA uses a range of hard and soft, transparent and opaque materials, and creates painterly, colorful landscapes in the sculptural tradition of Jessica Stockholder. Sometimes these large-scale sculptural assemblages appear strong and difficult to penetrate and other times they are as soft and fragile as feathers or dust. The multitude of textures and materials meet each other as open-ended playful investigation. The constructions of foam, thick plastics, light textiles, metal, silicone, latex, plexi and fiberglass objects, and other industrially produced elements have a bodily, organic quality to them.

Daiga GRANTINA’s works are abstract but suggestive of the body, and the distorted sculptural organisms shine a light on art historical references such as Lynda Benglis and Eva Hesse. GRANTINA’s installations are voluminous, almost Baroque, and they own the space they are in as if they want to take it over.