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Marianna Simnett
Marianna Simnett (born 1986) is a Berlin-based multi-disciplinary artist who works with film, installation, drawing, and sculpture. She is best known for her large-scale video installations.
Simnett studied at a musical theatre school as a teenager. She received a BA from Nottingham Trent University in 2007 and an MA from the Slade School of Art in 2013.
Simnett's work examines the perception and imagination of the (human) body. Throughout her body of work, and within individual works, there is a nonlinear narrative of "bodily dread" relating to issues of vulnerability, autonomy, and control. Frequent themes include sickness and the intervention of medicine, violation, sexuality, identity, and metamorphosis. Simnett intends the discomfort and pain depicted on the screen to illustrate "the impossible gulf between my pain and someone else's pain" and embody the themes of empathy, trauma and catharsis.
Botox figured in Blood In My Milk, The Needle and the Larynx, and Worst Gift. A recurring character Isabel, played by Isabel Maclaren, appears in The Udder and Blood. Syncope, or fainting, features prominently in Simnett's work, being central in Faint and Faint With Light.
Simnett works with people who have not trained as actors, such as children, farmers, doctors and scientists. She makes extensive use of abrupt transitions from one sequence to another and offers a fragmented representation of multi-faceted reality. She often re-uses footage from early works: Blood In My Milk merges newly edited footage from her trilogy (The Udder, Blue Roses and Blood) with Worst Gift, a reprise of The Needle and The Larynx.
Her practice has been influenced by Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman. Simnett credits Bruce Nauman with getting her into moving-image work, and cites Derek Jarman as a "huge influence". Simnett has affinity to Mika Rottenberg.
In March 2020 Simnett founded the digital art space Home Cooking alongside Asad Raza.
Simnett has had solo exhibitions at galleries including Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Kunsthalle Zürich, Museum für Moderne Kunst, and New Museum, New York. She has had group exhibitions at the Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, and Serpentine Gallery in London.
Marianna Simnett
Marianna Simnett (born 1986) is a Berlin-based multi-disciplinary artist who works with film, installation, drawing, and sculpture. She is best known for her large-scale video installations.
Simnett studied at a musical theatre school as a teenager. She received a BA from Nottingham Trent University in 2007 and an MA from the Slade School of Art in 2013.
Simnett's work examines the perception and imagination of the (human) body. Throughout her body of work, and within individual works, there is a nonlinear narrative of "bodily dread" relating to issues of vulnerability, autonomy, and control. Frequent themes include sickness and the intervention of medicine, violation, sexuality, identity, and metamorphosis. Simnett intends the discomfort and pain depicted on the screen to illustrate "the impossible gulf between my pain and someone else's pain" and embody the themes of empathy, trauma and catharsis.
Botox figured in Blood In My Milk, The Needle and the Larynx, and Worst Gift. A recurring character Isabel, played by Isabel Maclaren, appears in The Udder and Blood. Syncope, or fainting, features prominently in Simnett's work, being central in Faint and Faint With Light.
Simnett works with people who have not trained as actors, such as children, farmers, doctors and scientists. She makes extensive use of abrupt transitions from one sequence to another and offers a fragmented representation of multi-faceted reality. She often re-uses footage from early works: Blood In My Milk merges newly edited footage from her trilogy (The Udder, Blue Roses and Blood) with Worst Gift, a reprise of The Needle and The Larynx.
Her practice has been influenced by Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger and Cindy Sherman. Simnett credits Bruce Nauman with getting her into moving-image work, and cites Derek Jarman as a "huge influence". Simnett has affinity to Mika Rottenberg.
In March 2020 Simnett founded the digital art space Home Cooking alongside Asad Raza.
Simnett has had solo exhibitions at galleries including Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, Kunsthalle Zürich, Museum für Moderne Kunst, and New Museum, New York. She has had group exhibitions at the Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai, and Serpentine Gallery in London.