Diana Thater

Born in 1962 in San Francisco, she lives in Los Angeles.

With installations comprising video projections, colour, and light, Diana Thater transforms spaces into theatres, or rather into symbolic, satirical operas. Her primary concern is with the relationship between humans, technology, and nature. For this reason the figure of the animal is central in her recent work, her intention being to provoke a reconsideration in us of our relationship to the world.

The animals in her art are usually those who organise themselves into complex societies with highly developed systems of communication, such as wolves, dolphins, and bees. Thater sets up a kind of face-to-face meeting between animal and viewer, with the animals' behaviour reflecting that of the viewer. In this way she treats technology as a kind of natural prosthesis, a necessary and useful means of forcing a change of perspective.

Diana Thater has been invited to conceive a work specifically for the surroundings of the Espace EDF-Bazacle, intimately linked with water and the flow of the river.