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Marina Tziara

"A Carcass of Love and Bruises"

"A Carcass of Love and Bruises"

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oil on canvas

12"x12"

2025

"Guided by the figure of the Andrógino Mágico, my practice stages the alchemical drama Solve et Coagula: I dissolve fixed gender, pain, and memory, then re-assemble them into a luminous third form. The number 3 is my compass—triptych altars, three-fold gestures, and the triple rhythm of sculpture, text, and participatory ritual. Wounds left by the femicide I survived become portals of energy: visceral openings where power leaks and re-enters the body, echoing Ithell Colquhoun’s diagrams of love, La Maga’s errant dérive through Cortázar’s Hopscotch, and the runaway heroines of John Ashbery’s Girls on the Run. Each work invites viewers to cross these thresholds, feeling the queer electricity that sparks when sun meets moon inside the same flesh. By insisting on transmutation rather than resolution, I render mysticism as a practical tool of survival—an art of becoming both and neither. Each transformation offers a congenial matrix: a space where the union of opposites births movement, where the androgynous, post-human body glimmers as a living talisman." - Marina Tziara

 

Marina Tziara is an interdisciplinary artist and feminist activist working across painting, sculpture, and text. Rooted in posthuman gestures and feminist mythologies, her practice explores among other things, divine sexuality, the territories of witches, goddesses, queer mysticism & untold stories of inhabited sanctuaries. A few years ago, she researched the Nahua legend of Coatlicue in Mexico, a study that deepened her interest in ritual, transformation, and non-binary divine forms. A survivor of attempted femicide, Marina approaches art as a rite of rebirth and sublimation. Her work channels personal and collective trauma into transcendence—crafting immersive sanctuaries where women and queer bodies re-inhabit what was lost, and where memory, legends, and community intertwine. Based between Belgium and France, she was artist-in-residence at Centre Pompadour (FR) and is preparing her upcoming solo exhibition at CICA Museum of Contemporary Art (KR). Her work has been shortlisted for Re-Wiring: Unmasking Gendered Power Hierarchies (BE) and will appear in an academic journal on feminist spaces (USA) and the Women on the Move European project.

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