Time hides from us. We hide back.
There are hidden lines like threads everywhere, connecting everything.
There are invisible lines cutting between now and then.
— Diana Zrnic, 2025
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 its depths.
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.
Diana Zrnic (1995, Zagreb) is an emerging artist working across London and Zagreb. She graduated
with Distinction from the MFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2021 and from BA in
Painting at The Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb, in 2018. Her artworks have been shown in group and
solo exhibitions internationally, including Saatchi Gallery (London), Mestrovic Pavilion (Zagreb),
coGalleries (Berlin) and House of Ebata (Tokyo). In 2022, among ten group exhibitions, she had a solo
show at The Stone Space in London and was an artist in residence at Unit 1 Gallery/Workshop. In
2023, she showed with Lariot Collective at UVNT Art Fair in Madrid and Southwark Council
commissioned her to create a permanent public artwork for the Camberwell train station. Recent shows
include Gallery No32, Somers Gallery, Bay Art Cardiff, Phantasmal Gallery in Bath and Liliya Art
Gallery in London. @dianazrnic
Until 22nd March 2025
Somers Gallery
96 Chalton St NW1 1HJ
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. – Aristotle
