‘To the Realization of Perfect Helplessness’
Pale Horse Gallery
March 26th 6 pm-8 pm
51 Great Portland Street, London, United Kingdom
https://www.palehorsegallery.com/exhibitions/amira-diaw
Amira Diaw (b. 2002, Austin, TX). is a Senegalese - Nigerian artist based in Chicago. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2026. Her paintings serve as an archive of their history, capturing moments from the 1970s through the early 2000s that lend a stranger-like quality in the realm of the family or kinship space. The works on view demonstrate Diaw’s innate ability to construct intimate worlds and imagined realities. Diaw’s paintings are re-compositions of an inexperienced history. Taking photographs and archival ephemera: letters, documents, and papers, as their starting-point, they conjure what she calls “sleeping memories.” In these works, Diaw casts careful attention to quotidian moments, elevating their status and revealing their potent evocative force. The relative everyday-ness of her subject-matter not only heightens the works’ palpable emotive resonances but simultaneously speaks to the highly politicized reality that constitutes Black identity in America today.
. Level 3 Gallery Intwerview Artist of the Week
Published October 7th, 2025
Meet our Artist of the Week, Amira Diaw. Head to the link in our bio to read about Amira’s influence practice and more.
https://lvl3official.com/amira-diaw/