Suspended lines Body XI Photography Artwork

This photography artwork captures the silent power of the body through abstraction, movement, and lines of human expression

Artwork Description

 about this Photography Artwork

The Suspended Lines series explores the human body as a living map, marked by expression, movement, and emotional memory. Each photograph fragments and reconstructs the body, reducing the figure to form without personal identity or facial recognition.

By removing the face, the work avoids individual narrative, creating a symbol that speaks to collective experience and shared existence. The body becomes a canvas, revealing tension, softness, and history through every line, curve, and fold of flesh.

These natural traces function like topographic markings, evidence of time, emotion, and embodied memory etched into the skin. Composition is guided by these lines, which shape form and convey unspoken, universal stories beyond verbal language.

The omission of the face challenges traditional portraiture, redirecting attention to movement, posture, and gesture as vessels of meaning. Figures appear suspended in stillness yet remain alive with suggestion, held between material presence and abstract implication.

This photography artwork series reflects on contemporary humanity, disconnected from names, yet deeply anchored in shared physicality and emotional weight. Through abstraction, the body becomes anonymous yet deeply human, vibrating with stories we recognize but cannot name. Suspended Lines invites viewers to witness the beauty of form as metaphor, as archive, and as emotional landscape.

artist statement

I see myself as a full-time visual consumer, constantly absorbing and responding to my surroundings. My artistic journey spans sculpture, engraving, and photography artwork, each helping shape my visual language. Sculptural practice became my core medium, where I reconstruct emotions and build alternative narratives.

Through materials and photographs, I assemble illusions that question reality and perceived truth. My work explores the creation of identity and sensation through the reconfiguration of visual and emotional fragments. Each piece invites reflection on the human psyche, its fragility, adaptability, and layered meaning.

I examine the mind as a transformable and ever-shifting entity. We are shaped by our environments, political realities, and existential tensions. I do not depict a specific individual, but rather the universal state of becoming. Every human presence encountered influences my process, feeding a deeper reflection on shared psychological landscapes.

Artist Bio

Diana Beltran was born in Bogotá in 1978. She earned her Master of Fine Arts at the National University of Colombia. Her artistic focus centers primarily on photography, with consistent and wide-ranging output.

Beltran has exhibited solo and collectively in Colombia, Spain, USA, Germany, Peru, Venezuela, Singapore, and Dubai. Her work is included in collections in Chile, Colombia, USA, Panama, Spain, Mexico, Peru, London, and Dubai. She debuted at the National University’s Art Museum in a group show curated by Gustavo Zalamea.

Her work was shown alongside major Colombian artists like Beatriz González and Bernardo Salcedo. Graduating with honors, she moved to Spain for a master’s in photography at EFTI School in Madrid. Her thesis work was featured in PhotoEspaña 2008. That same year, she won the Novel Dove First Photography Prize.

In 2010, she returned to Colombia with her exhibition Photo Dimensions at the Chamber of Commerce. In 2013, she took part in Emerging Generation, curated by Eduardo Serrano. Since then, she exhibits regularly, exploring photography’s expansive forms and existential themes. Beltran currently lives and works in Bogotá.

View her Dubai collection of available artworks here

copyright

This photography artwork is one of a kind original therefore, all copyrights and reproduction rights are reserved by the artist.