Featured Artist: Livia Marin

Livia Marin excels in transforming everyday objects into works of art. Her works tend to feature repetition heavily and focus on the process of the transformation above anything else.

Ficciones de un uso, 2,214 lipsticks, 2004

In Ficciones de un uso, Marin uses a staggering 2,214 tubes of lipstick to create an installation that is unified through repetition yet manages to reveal an unexpected individuality between pieces. No two lipsticks are the same color or shape. It seems to be a subtle commentary on the way women attempt to find individuality for themselves while still conforming to the homogenizing standard of beauty that is expected of them.


Broken Things, 2009

Broken Things, 2009

Broken Things again takes the familiar and separates it from it's usual context. Marin explains the purpose of the exhibit by saying, "In this particular show, the figure of something broken is what hinges that relationship: when something breaks it goes out of use, it can be discarded, but it might enter a new phase of signification if its owner has a strong attachment to it. It’s that moment of decision or indecision that interests me and that I try to recreate by building the object as an ambiguous figure. Within this, it is important that I have worked with mass-produced, non-noble objects, whereby things that were not important in the first place achieve a value or significance by the attachments that people form with them." (http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/2084-livia-marin-broken-things)


Broken Things, 2009


Broken Things, 2009