The subtitle, ‘Matrilineal Forms’, refers to systems of kinship and inheritance transmitted through the maternal line. By extending this concept to the realm of objects and images, Diamond reflects on how forms are reproduced, transformed and sustained across successive material generations, retaining traces of their origins whilst assuming new identities.

Beginning with vessels made using hand-coiling and wheel-throwing techniques, Diamond creates forms that subtly evoke female reproductive anatomy whilst emphasising the presence of touch, artisanal gesture and bodily memory.

From this material origin, the works are photographed and digitised, translating their weight, texture and surface into image and data. Diamond then introduces these forms into artificial intelligence systems that generate speculative variations existing solely within the virtual realm. AI stretches, distorts and reimagines the vessels; rather than functioning as a tool of efficiency or automation, it becomes a collaborator within the creative process.

These virtual forms subsequently return to the physical world as three-dimensional objects printed in silk. The lightness and fragility of this material contrast with the density of clay, whilst preserving a pronounced corporeal resonance. Finally, the objects are photographed once again, resulting in an image—a replicant—that blurs distinctions between original and reproduction, artefact and image.

The series synthesises Diamond’s interest in the interaction between materiality, algorithms and generative cycles, exploring how touch and technology converge to produce forms that are simultaneously human and computational. The resulting works trace continuous cycles of creation, translation and return, questioning the boundaries between hand and machine, physical and virtual, original and copy.

This project can be understood as a continuation of the research Diamond began in 2010 with "I Promise to Be a Good Mother". In that photographic series, the artist uses her own body to perform and interrogate motherhood as a social and cultural construct. Wearing her mother’s clothing and adopting an inherited identity, she explores the transmission of behaviours, expectations and representations of femininity across generations.

Similarly, 'Replicant: Matrilineal Forms' addresses questions of creation, reproduction, transformation and transmission through ceramics, digital reproduction and artificial intelligence. The vessels formally allude to female reproductive anatomy whilst passing through successive processes of copying, translation and regeneration between the physical and the digital.

During a ten-day residency at the gallery, in the Oratori de Sant Feliu, Diamond will revisit the performance initiated in I Promise to Be a Good Mother. Dressed in her mother’s clothing and wearing the same wig used in the photographic series, she will create new vessels on the potter’s wheel using clay sourced from Mallorca, allowing visitors to witness the beginning of the transformative process that underpins the project.