DIYARA
Series

Two bodies of work

No Friend But The Mountains, 2025 — oil on canvas. A large-format nocturnal range of crimson, violet and ochre peaks under a pale sun and turbulent dark blue sky, with deep green-black foothills below.
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Landscapes as testimony

Mountains

Across these paintings, the mountain becomes a witness: a site of endurance, memory and political presence. Built through shifting colour and layered gesture, these landscapes hold distance, fracture and the persistence of belonging.

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A frontal portrait of a white owl with wings spread wide against a deep oxblood ground; the plumage dissolves into intricate blue, black, and earth-toned marbled patterns.
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Figures as testimony

Figures

These works approach the figure as a carrier of memory. Human and animal presences emerge through colour, gesture and distortion, holding vulnerability, defiance and the emotional residue of displacement.

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