Thank you to Frieze and Madeleine Seidel for the thoughtful review of Dianna Settles exhibition at MARCH, A Life Worth Living Would Be A Life Worth Living. Read the full article at the link in our bio. “MARCH’s presentation focuses on group portraits of an imagined rural community, illustrating the possibility of life outside of the strains of modern existence. The members of Settles’s colony, which she portrays in lively shades of acrylic paint with coloured-pencil detailing, live amongst the land and tend to one another’s needs in a veritable Eden. All are taken care of and protected: a clear rejection of the cutthroat individualism that marks our capitalist state. In How do we follow after you? Cupping circles, culling rows (all works 2022), one of the exhibition’s larger pieces, a group of people tend a plot of land. There is a similarly utopian aura to Making new alterations to the old calendar, bringing back the holidays that demand rest from our laboring, holidays for pleasure, holidays for praising the wind and the bees, for partaking in all of the ways that we are earthbound (we love our bread, we love our butter, but most of all we love each other), with its diverse and tattooed coalition relaxing in pick-up trucks retrofitted as wading pools.” –Madeleine Seidel Photo by Cary Whittier. @platonicyouth @friezeofficial @madeleine_seidel #diannasettles