LIA Programme

The third artist who will be exhibiting on June 27 at the Spinnerei is Monika Dahlberg 💫💫💫



This series explores the body as something no longer whole, shaped through gradual shifts, interruptions, and fragments that refuse to disappear. In drawing and ceramic form, the body is seen as residue rather than unity, persisting in traces, surfaces, and weight.

Loss becomes the starting point. A fragment or remnant is not an ending, but continuation. The works move between anatomy and abstraction, where meaning remains unstable and in flux.

The ceramic objects extend this into space. They are not representations, but presences, forms held in silence, existing in a state of becoming. Together, the works form a quiet language of transformation within what remains.

We’d like to introduce the artists exhibiting in our summer show, which opens on June 27, starting with Jarrad Martyn 🦢🍃✨

Jarrad Martyn

"During my time at LIA, I have spent time in its many parks, observing bird species that have since been introduced to Australia. There is an uncanniness to this experience that has led me to reflect on
the legacy of introduced European species within the Australian landscape. Subjects are collaged together to create spaces that slip between the real and the artificial, the abstract and the figurative, the kitsch and the romantic, and the past and the present. These spaces invite viewers to consider the interconnectedness of these histories and ecologies, while reflecting
on how the landscape might be represented today."