Diane Severin Nguyen collects found objects and organic matter to craft the images in her photographs and video works. Her  work transforms substances found in quotidian domestic spaces to evoke the body rendered unstable.  Nguyen’s materials are often plant-based, coagulating, metallic, and wet. She focuses on matter in states of transformation, such as the moment when it is decisively caught—frozen—and intentionally captures an in-betweenness that can be expressed as physical tension or irresolute states. The results are gut-wrenching, uncanny compositions: they evoke something unseeable, such as the “architecture of emotions”, but also very real bodily functions. Nguyen is interested in the journalistic moment of photography, while also considering how the journalistic takes on a highly specific meaning within photography; it is inseparable from the violent history of capturing ‘source material’.