DIYARA
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.

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.
Silent Hunter, 2025
Oil on canvas
100 × 100 cm
The Refugee, 2024 — oil on canvas. A vertical portrait of a figure with a flame-like red mane against a black void and pale rose ground; the body dissolves into intricate marbled green, violet and bone-white folds.
The Refugee, 2024
Oil on canvas
50 × 100 cm
Red Offering, 2024 — oil on canvas. A frontal bust-length figure with a pale, marbled green and bone-white face dissolving into rippling contours, set against a softly streaked ochre and sage ground; the shoulders and chest erupt into dense, vivid red impasto threaded with blue, white and earth tones.
Red Offering, 2024
Oil on canvas
100 × 100 cm
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