Marina Font

Marina Font is a multidisciplinary artist working in photography, mixed media, installation, and video. Her studio practice explores ideas about identity, gender, territory, language, memory, and the forces of the unconscious. Strongly influenced by psychoanalysis, her works often explore womanhood and the domestic sphere.

For A Yellow Rose Project, she photographed the female body in a pose that resembles an anatomy study that ultimately represents openness and vulnerability. She then manually manipulated the images with embroidery, threads, and fabrics. These materials helped her connect with a life-long association with women’s traditions, as in telling a story that departs from the depths to the surface. Through this intimate performative ritual, the embodiment of the photograph becomes the common ground where the familiar and the foreign meet, as an individual attempts to blur the lines between the internal and external spaces of the body. The construction of these works evokes diverse psychological states and emotions with meanings that are in constant flux, never fixed, just like our identities. The body becomes a topographic surface intending to express thoughts on the mysteries and intricate secrets of the self, the life lived, the past, and the roads yet to transit. The works ultimately intend to express the intricate forces that have driven these women to fight not only for their right to vote, but for equality.