Diana Cooper

Born 1964, lives and works in New York, USA

 

Diana Cooper´s main interest is in creating systems that through the use of certain materials or formal strategies unravel and stop making sense.

„Sometimes I feel as though I am making flowcharts for an imaginary world. My mind is like a filter constantly translating the world around me. Everything catches my eye: bright orange traffic cones meandering between the street and the sidewalk; an enormous building sheathed in black mesh from top to bottom; duct tape adhering a handwritten sign to a newly polished subway tiled wall. These are all urban works in progress, part of the transitory, the ephemeral, and the makeshift. These are the environments we inhabit everyday. The act of mediating different worlds and creating unexpected juxtapositions is important to me. I want to transform materials and insinuate them into unlikely contexts (…).” (Diana Cooper)



Diana Cooper, Daphne, 2006, Mixed media on paper, 185.4 x 78.7 x 2.5cm