25/11/2025
ARTIST VOICES . DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE PAVILION WITH DIANE GIRAUD ***
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“A basic tenets of somatics holds true for better or for worse: we become what we practise and we’re always practising something. ” - Alta Starr
In Diane Giraud’s practice, the act of burning paper began as intuition - neither ritual nor rebellion, but a gesture of transformation. Over time, it became a vocabulary for loss, memory and renewal. As Aishwarya Kumar wrote in an Arte Capital essay, she is a “painter without paint” , an artist whose work unfolds in the liminal space between what is seen and what is felt.
From burnt paper and ash to cast sculpture and voice, Giraud moves between mediums as one might move between memories - tracing how fragments, encounters and inherited gestures reconfigure the architectures of remembering. Rooted in her French-Vietnamese-Greek heritage, her work resists linguistic fixity, revealing instead a quiet philosophy of making that repetition, attention, and disappearance are also ways of becoming.
Presented as part of The Down The Rabbit Hole Pavilion, curated by Aishwarya Kumar for The Wrong Biennale, her ongoing experiments invite us to listen to the residue of what remains - to see practice itself as a form of relation.
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