MARTIN DAIBER

I enter unknown zones...the purpose is to push myself into the strange. To go further into the infinite world of shape and colour. I am interested chaos; experiences and stories that enclose a mystery. 

Martin Daiber’s works are temporal and spatial re-renderings of imagined experiences. Like the Analytic Cubists, who recorded a work of art at various angles, or even the Modernists who painted the same subject at various times of day, Daiber continuously upends a straightforward perspective to deconstruct his subject matter. At times we see discombobulated heads and limbs, free-form shapes, abstracted confetti colours, and various marks that may or may not have real-word referents.

For Daiber, the works are about a broader gesture, a commentary on the fragmentation of self but also the disconnect between knowing and not needing to know. Almost like reading a book back to front, Daiber plays hopscotch between elements to create a consistent message throughout the works. “The uncertainty, or rather the desire to ‘find something’ is the driving force,” and this speaks to his process as an artist but also our position as viewers, where narrative or image are cumulative. Or how a composer leads an orchestra to crescendo, or the director instructs the players upon the stage toward a story. Here Daiber plays maestro, concealing and revealing with playful whimsy, suggesting a deeper and more complex system of meanings beneath.