Directing the gaze
Regardles of her choices of specific themes, a closer inspection of her images
reveals a repeated concern with internal and external. Yet, her standpoint remains
essentially ambivalent. Her pictorial language refuses to divulge whether the gaze is
directed from the outside inwards, or from the inside outwards...
...The gaze thus discovers its own voyeurism. And yet the only thing exposed are the
layers of color as they spread over the surface of canvas, transforming two dimensions
into illusory space. Nothing more happens, but also nothing less.
...It can also be observed that the painter's treatment of specific themes only seems
to conclude within a respective series. Her language of forms repeatedly appropriates
itself, while making painterly reference to the works of Nicolas de Stael, Marc Chagall,
Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee. The issues of abstraction and concretion ultimately
remain central to Dalia's work. Her vision is rooted in the origins of non-figurative
paintings of this century.
Sigrid Melchior [Hamburg]
