Real Time and Space is hyped to host REAL TALKS with resident Jayna Dias and special guest Ada Liv. Join us Wednesday, February 18th at 6pm. RTS is located at 125 10th St in Oakland, CA. Get here early for pizza! This might be our last Real Talk for a while, so bring your friends and come enjoy one while you can.
As a Senegalese-Amerian artist, Dias’ work is rooted in the complexity of cultural hybridity in the Black diaspora, Black female subjectivity, and fetishization. She graduated from the Roski School of Art and Design at the University of Southern California in 2024 and currently practices in Los Angeles, California. Through drawing, painting and performance, Dias creates visual exemplifications of the intricacy of Black identity, Western colonialism’s intervention on it, and how deconstruction can be a powerful tool in reasserting it. Unstable compositions, expressionistic bodies, boisterous colors, found materials and seductive clarity are all utilized in her practice to stage invitations for viewers to engage with the underrepresented themes she depicts. Above all, Dias’ practice is about visibility. She creates to be seen.
Ada Liv (b. 2001) is an artist based in the Bay Area who utilizes organic materials to create abstract and unidentifiable forms. Employing textile, installation, and painting, her work reflects an appreciation for nature and biology through a macro/micro lens. She transforms materials primarily sourced from waste physically and symbolically through intense manipulations. She graduated with a BA in Art from University of Southern California in 2024. Prior to that she attended Mills College and also earned a Diploma in Fashion Design from Central Saint Martins.