Art Taaalkssss: Mariana Murcia

Mariana Murcia is a Colombian artist and a swimmer. Assuming a performative attitude, she often works in collaboration with water, temperature, ferments, bacteria, animals, and other people. Based on her experience dealing with the limits and superpositions between her body, its memory and the environments she inhabits, she’s constantly wondering: if what’s in front of me is unfamiliar from my standing perspective, how can I reverse this relation by being unfamiliar to the presence of what there is? She moves in between Basel and Seyðisfjörður, in Iceland, where she is Program Director at Lunga School, together with Lotte Rose Kjær Skau, Lasse Høgenhof, and Þórir Freyr Höskuldsson, an artist-run residential art school that offers programs in Art, Land and Radio.

For Art Taaalkssss Mariana Murcia will reflect about the various threads that shape her practice and how, in different but intersecting ways, they establish collaborative practices, initiate new long-lasting relationships and make bridges across individuals—humans and non-humans—and places.

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