Marina Paris

DOMESTIC SPACES_12
2010

Lambda print mounted on aluminium and framed
106 x 150 cm
SENZA TITOLO
2004

C-print on aluminium
80 x 150 cm
SENZA TITOLO
2005

c-print mounted on aluminium
80 x 150 cm
AMBIENTE_07
2009

lambda print on aluminium and framed
112 x 162 cm
DOMESTIC SPACES_10
2010

Lambda print mounted on aluminium and framed
106 x 150 cm
DOMESTIC SPACES_11
2010

Lambda print mounted on aluminium and framed
106 x 150 cm
DOMESTIC SPACES_13
2010

Lambda print mounted on aluminium and framed
106 x 150 cm
AMBIENTE_01
2009

Lambda print mounted on aluminium and framed
104 x 148 cm
AMBIENTE_02
2009

Lambda print mounted on aluminium and framed
104 x 148 cm
AMBIENTE_04
2009

Lambda print on paper mounted on aluminium and framed
112 x 162 cm
VARIABLE SPACE
2008

Lambda print mounted on aluminium and framed
155 x 190 cm
VARIABLE SPACE
2007

Lambda print mounted on aluminium and framed
155 x 190 cm
SENZA TITOLO
2005

Ink on paper
21 x 30 cm
SENZA TITOLO
2005

Ink on paper
21 x 30 cm
SENZA TITOLO
2005

Ink on paper
21 x 30 cm

Marina Paris

Artista e fotografa nata a Sassoferrato nel 1965, vive e lavora a Roma.
Marina Paris ha orientato la sua ricerca sulla persistenza dei ricordi e la loro mutevolezza, formalizzata attraverso l’uso di varie tecniche quali la fotografia, il disegno e l’installazione. I suoi primi lavori si sono sviluppati attorno al tema dell’immaginario dell’infanzia, intesa come tempo da cui far riemergere reminiscenze e visioni.
Recentemente, l’artista si è interessata più in particolare a quelli che vengono definiti “non luoghi”; comuni spazi di attraversamento come scuole, ospedali, stazioni, sale d’aspetto e corridoi radicati nella memoria collettiva. La ricerca dell’artista mira quindi a mettere in evidenza l’inquietante standardizzazione di questi luoghi che fa perdere loro le specifiche identità e ne annebbia i caratteri delle consuete funzioni d’uso. Tale processo, secondo l’artista, porta immancabilmente allo svelamento del carattere disciplinare e di controllo connaturato a questi luoghi.

 

 Artist and photograper born in Sassoferrato in 1965, she lives and works in Rome.
Marina Paris has always focused on the persistence of memories and their fluctuations, expressed through the use of various techniques such as photography, drawings, and installation. Memory, presented as a means to reinterpret events and places, appears in her works as a starting point that is always constituted as a real situation, visualized in a distant time that comes to be reconstructed through different artistic pratices.
Paris has become particularly interested in what has been defined as ‘non-places’; communal spaces of interaction such as schools, hospitals, train and bus stations, waiting rooms and hallways that are rooted in the collective memory of society. These places, when lacking any sign of human presence, bear a strange resemblance to each other. In a sort of disconcerting standardization that destroys their specific identities and blurs their character, these places in the end become spaces of control and strongly claustrophobic in nature.