Dia Zékány’s exhibiton The Objects Are at Peace Within My Heart focuses on accumulated, collected objects and the spaces that accommodate them.
Her paintings show objects that have been collected, stored, kept and set aside through lifetimes, forgotten, but loved at the same time. Things that bring happiness to the person who keeps and collects them, but can be frustrating to those who live with them out of necessity.
Dia’s family experience allows her to relate to the accumulation of objects, interpreting them as “installations” can give us, the viewer, an individual perspective. After all, we can all relate to collecting objects, either because we are collectors ourselves or because we struggle to get rid of unnecessary objects.
In recent years, Dia has moved from rooms and interiors to backyards, courtyards, workshops and garages on her pastel on canvas paintings. Excluded from her studio due to the epidemic situation, in addition to her oil paintings, small-scale pastel drawings also appear among her works since 2020.
The title of the exhibition is a quotation from Ágnes Nemes Nagy’s two-line poem The Objects. Similarly to the poet, Dia Zékány finds a connection with the objects around us.