Dia Mrad: Works;
Atelier 3824
Atelier 3824 is a sculptural and photographic installation developed during Dia Mrad’s residency at the Cité internationale des arts in Paris. Built from the accumulation of packages and objects delivered to the studio over three months — groceries, shoes, tools, wine — the work forms a material self-portrait through the unnoticed infrastructures of daily life.
Rather than presenting the artist directly, Atelier 3824 constructs a spatial archive of presence through the residues of habitation. Arranged with architectural precision, these objects become markers of time, dislocation, and the micro-economies of existence in a foreign space. The studio is activated as a site of collection, compression, and quiet performance.
The project extends Mrad’s engagement with objecthood and the politics of material systems, shifting inward to map how ephemeral gestures — deliveries, routines, consumption — scaffold the experience of displacement. Atelier 3824 reads as both document and diagram: an architecture of presence built from the mundane, where the infrastructure of daily survival becomes the infrastructure of artistic thought.
Exhibitions
The Road to Reframe
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09–10.2023
Virtual Exhibition:
Tradition of Change