I see Ida as a life commentator, a storyteller of things we know, but would rather not know and she manages to do this without seeming polemic or dogmatic. She uses humour and lightness so that the work never seems to lecture. What comes through in her work, is someone that has been exceedingly aware /alive and responsive to everything that has happened to us in the last few decades. What has changed us and what has not, what has degenerated, what we have triumphed over and what we have allowed to defeat us. As Benjamin Lingel says in 'Are you Bleeding?' 'She likes to ‘show and tell’. From earliest to her latest, she tells the truth about the world in her own way. 

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Her recent work is divided and reassembled to create work made up from multiple canvases. She uses every exhibition to experiment with different display strategies. Her work evokes wonder and a dream like disorientation. The actors (ordinary men and woman caught in act of being themselves, of leading everyday lives) are all strangers who somehow seem hauntingly elusively, and strangely familiar. Like life itself, these half glimpsed, enigmatic scenarios rush by so fast that, by the time their most basic elements can be understood or even identified, they are already in the process of being erased or forgotten. They are like fleeing moments, like when you see something for such a short time and then wonder if that was actually what you saw. It’s an uncertainty in her work yet also definite about the dramas we face in this world.

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The repetitions speak of the repetitions of life and the replaying of daily events. They are suspended in time by the lost memory of their actions, a meaning perpetually on the verge of being remembered, the ghost of their meaning haunts them. The repetitions are like physiological imprints fixed in the memory, like scar tissue.

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