Carla Marini

 

 

 

 

Carla Marini was born in the Chilean desert, and she inherit the love for the carnival of the North. Her art comes from this imaginary, crowded of colors, music, and symbols of this culture. She studied performing arts, after a while, she worked on visual poetry and performance, which allowed her to show her work on diverse Festivals such as Parking Day in Chile (2008/2009) and Matadero in Spain (2010)... In 2016 she moved to Barcelona, the city where she is currently based, to study for a Masters's degree in Illustration…

In 2017 she participated in the collective exhibition Para gustos colores in El Diluvio Universal Gallery.
In 2018 she got the award Latin American Illustrations Winners, and was selected in LOS DIEZ as part of their 2019 collective show in New York City…
In 2019 She was published on Fanzine Period in Chile. She also had her solo exhibition, and produced the Performance El violador eres tú  (You are the rapist), both in Barcelona.
In 2020 She was part of the International Illustration Salon in Colombia. And, was part of the collective exhibition Woman and Word for the event The nights of books  in Matadero Madrid.
In 2021 she will be part of the collective exhibition at Envision Art Gallery in the US, and she will be collaborating as well with Your art beat Gallery in Berlin.

 

STATEMENT

My research has always been around identity. My roots are the starting point for everything…from the colors to my interest in multiculturalism and feminism.

Always thinking in the concept of otherness, in many ways, because I want to bring forward elements of it that historically have not been appreciated.

My work lately has been a journey between abstract and figurative portraits of women, is a kind of metaphor for the disappearance of women in the patriarchy...in every possible way. From the symbolic to the literal, the extreme expression of sexism…the feminicide. Also my work is a personal reflection of my knowledge of feminism regarding the deconstructions you must make to be coherent.

 Women who are aware of the suffering oppression, are inevitably called to change…