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Daria Blum at marytwo

Solo Show «HOME SCREEN», February 6 until March 28, 2026

Artists

Daria Blum

Institution

marytwo

Location

Luzern

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Exhibition View Solo Show Daria Blum «HOME SCREEN» at marytwo, Luzern, 2026 / Photo: Julian Blum / Courtesy: the artist and marytwo

Daria Blum’s practice moves between performative interventions and tragicomic narratives, unfolding within installative environments in which screens, spotlights, live streams, and self-absorbed, competitive characters share, or rather fight over, the stage. In her work, audiovisual installation stands on equal footing with staged performance, at times even determining it. Established hierarchies are overturned; Blum redistributes her directive agency among common objects and technological surfaces, which together orchestrate situations in which everyday and artistic performativity is humorously brought into focus.

While the artist’s visual presence is a constant throughout her practice, there is no trace of her face or body in the site-specific intervention realized at marytwo. In HOME SCREEN, lamps, projections, screens, and a series of framed works are quite literally the sole actors in a bodiless play. The installation’s props of assembled lamps and screens are generically familiar: objects without a distinctive design identity, mass-produced to artificially determine the ambience of interior spaces. Here, they are staged precisely as such, asserting their presence and claiming theatricality through a calibrated sonic and visual choreography of on-and-off switching, punctuated by sudden yet charmingly melodic synth keys that divide the installation into chapters.

Among the other characters in this show is a series of framed works in a 16:9 format. These are assemblages composed of layered trials and materials used for stage productions, evoking the stages of an eternally unfinished artistic process, as well as its emotional layers. The images also unfold in layers across the walls, where screens merge with the background and become projection surfaces themselves, creating a pleasant sense of disorientation.

From the setting and perspective of marytwo’s interior, HOME SCREEN choreographs our attention as an audience. It is very much a spectacle that unfolds between crescendos and moments of calm, deploying musical pathos through unexceptional objects. The composition revolves around a recognizable melody, triggering shared emotional reactions. Yet the characters continue their ostentatious “look-at-me!!” dance, tragicomically performing and re-performing their same role according to the artist’s programming, in a ridiculous quest for attention, even when the space is closed.

This sad funniness becomes strangely relatable in the desire to stand out within our own genericness. As characterless machines permeate more aspects of human life, at what point do generic lamps and attention-seeking props start to steal the show?

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Exhibition View Solo Show Daria Blum «HOME SCREEN» at marytwo, Luzern, 2026 / Photo: Julian Blum / Courtesy: the artist and marytwo

Exhibition View Solo Show Daria Blum «HOME SCREEN ; view on HOME SCREEN, detail, 2026, Programmed video, sound and light script, 20 IKEA TÅGARP lamps, 3 BOTEX DMX-Switchpacks, disco ball, loop, Dimensions variable» at marytwo, Luzern, 2026 / Photo: Julian Blum / Courtesy: the artist and marytwo

Exhibition View Solo Show Daria Blum «HOME SCREEN» at marytwo, Luzern, 2026 / Photo: Julian Blum / Courtesy: the artist and marytwo

Exhibition View Solo Show Daria Blum «HOME SCREEN ; view on the window in the toilet stall is open and i see two kids in the courtyard eating tesco sandwiches, 2026, Archival pigment print, UV print and vinyl on museum glass, tape, finger prints, 46 × 50.5 cm» at marytwo, Luzern, 2026 / Photo: Julian Blum / Courtesy: the artist and marytwo

Exhibition View Solo Show Daria Blum «HOME SCREEN ; view on the window in the toilet stall is open and i see two kids in the courtyard eating tesco sandwiches, detail, 2026, Archival pigment print, UV print and vinyl on museum glass, tape, finger prints, 46 × 50.5 cm» at marytwo, Luzern, 2026 / Photo: Julian Blum / Courtesy: the artist and marytwo

Exhibition View Solo Show Daria Blum «HOME SCREEN» at marytwo, Luzern, 2026 / Photo: Julian Blum / Courtesy: the artist and marytwo

Exhibition View Solo Show Daria Blum «HOME SCREEN ; view on i guess at that age you’re more resilient even if the ambulance takes a while my child would make it, 2026, Archival pigment print, UV print on museum glass, coloured lighting gel, tape, 46 × 26 cm» at marytwo, Luzern, 2026 / Photo: Julian Blum / Courtesy: the artist and marytwo

Exhibition View Solo Show Daria Blum «HOME SCREEN ; view on i guess at that age you’re more resilient even if the ambulance takes a while my child would make it, detail, 2026, Archival pigment print, UV print on museum glass, coloured lighting gel, tape, 46 × 26 cm» at marytwo, Luzern, 2026 / Photo: Julian Blum / Courtesy: the artist and marytwo

Exhibition View Solo Show Daria Blum «HOME SCREEN» at marytwo, Luzern, 2026 / Photo: Julian Blum / Courtesy: the artist and marytwo

Exhibition View Solo Show Daria Blum «HOME SCREEN ; i‘m watching the go-kart session in classroom three and all the parents and kids are cheering, 2026, Archival pigment print, coloured lighting gel, 46 × 26 cm» at marytwo, Luzern, 2026 / Photo: Julian Blum / Courtesy: the artist and marytwo

Exhibition View Solo Show Daria Blum «HOME SCREEN ; i‘m watching the go-kart session in classroom three and all the parents and kids are cheering, detail, 2026, Archival pigment print, coloured lighting gel, 46 × 26 cm» at marytwo, Luzern, 2026 / Photo: Julian Blum / Courtesy: the artist and marytwo

Exhibition View Solo Show Daria Blum «HOME SCREEN» at marytwo, Luzern, 2026 / Photo: Julian Blum / Courtesy: the artist and marytwo