12th - 22nd March, 2025

Somers Gallery (96 Chalton St, NW1 1HJ)

Hiding Place is a solo exhibition by artist Diana Zrnic, contemplating on the disguised mysteries of life. Comprising paintings and sculptures, the latest cycle of Zrnic’s practice explores a spatiality which is not momentary available for the grasp, which is beyond the physical realm and does not have an apparent entrance or way out. This investigation evolves from sifting personal symbols and happenings until what dwells within them finally seeps through. This entity is of a great value – not as a materialistic particle – but as a personified attachment. It is a feeling with no place to hide, a soul radiating through a body, hopes concealed within the depths of the body.

Zrnic is interested in researching world-fracturing rather than world-building. She observes the cracks where the tangible and the intangible meet, where the rational and the irrational merge. It is a layer beyond the surface, where hands attempt to touch the ungraspable yet face uncertainty instead. In her works, Zrnic traces a spatiality or a moment within it when the inside spills out and the outside sneaks in. Looking for moments charged with unsureness, she captures situations in which the external and the internal intertwine and flicker, inviting the viewer to look for hidden meanings.