Lucia Diamond – Artist

“I love, therefore I am.”

The Berlin-based artist Lucia Diamond sees herself as the transformative potential of her self, viewing life – with its diverse emotional facets, spectra of light and shadow – as an open process, a cyclical movement that evolves, expands, and deepens, challenging her to cultivate her deeply inherent individual human potential. This transformation process – comparable to the metamorphosis of a caterpillar into a butterfly – is a holistic, healing artistic expression of herself, in which Lucia Diamond experiences herself both as an artist and as art.

Lucia Diamond is a painter and filmmaker. Thus, it is not surprising that her ceramics also serve as a canvas for her, and that her human experience is shaped by dramaturgy, particularly through her cinematic interpretation of Eros and Psyche from Plato’s “Symposium.” And so, Lucia Diamond whispers to us: “You yourself are the artwork of your life. You are the director, actor, producer; you are both the performer and the audience.” She inspires us to ask ourselves: Who am I? Who do I want to be? What film of my life do I want to see? In what world do we want to live?

EROS PSYCHE

REBORN / IN BEAUTY / THE CONSTANCY / OF EROS / TURNED / TO ITS SOURCE

THE GRACES / BROUGHT / THE MOMENT / BACK

AND BECAME / THE NEW / BEGINNING

NEEDING / NO CONSCIENCE / CONSCIENCE / WAS FREE

PSYCHE EROS / EROS PSYCHE / SECRETLY / UNSTONED / THE STONED

from: EROS PSYCHE by Michael Lekakis, 1973

In Lucia Diamonds’s works, the movement of Eros is reflected, freeing humanity from its isolation and state of lack. Much like Eros, art serves as a mediator between the conscious and unconscious, between deficiency and abundance. In the end, abundance in art returns to form; indeed, it would belong to the lack of the divine world as a lack in itself.

Eros, as a daemon and mediator between gods and humans, has been a central motif in our art and cultural history since Plato. Eros brings forth love—whether it be the love of the philosopher for wisdom or the love among people. He embodies the impulse to desire to possess the beautiful, the good, and the true forever. Thus, the lack inherent in all humans by virtue of their nature as singular beings is overcome.

Hermine Wehr

T h e w e b s i t e i s u n d e r c o n s t r u c t i o n

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