Lia DARJES focuses on everyday subjects and environments. She uses photography to observe quiet details and small moments that might otherwise go unnoticed. Often working with still life and documentary elements, her images reflect a careful attention to composition and atmosphere. Through her practice, she explores how meaning can emerge from ordinary things and subtle gestures.
In Plates I–XXXI, Lia DARJES invites us to witness the quiet choreography of cohabitation. A plate of scraps becomes a meeting ground, where squirrels, slugs, birds, and field mice appear — not as intruders, but as neighbours. Captured through a lens left to nature’s rhythm, these images reveal a fragile intimacy between species. What begins as a trace of human presence becomes a shared ritual, a silent meal across boundaries. In this gentle crossing of worlds, DARJES reminds us that coexistence begins with attention — and that even the smallest beings shape the living fabric we belong to.
