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Plastician - Marina Jacob Bildende Künstlerin
Marina Jacob
Bio
Marina Jacob is a German artist based in Frankfurt am Main. Her practice includes sculpture and large format drawing, sometimes with performative elements. Marina tests the potential of material imagination as a hybrid space and a catalyst. The artist uses reversible materials such as tin, wax and glass splitters.Her works are informed by philosophical, sociological theories in the scope of human-animal studies and by experimentation with ethnic crafts. The artist studied Fine art at Chelsea College of Arts, UAL, London and holds an MA degree with distinction from Kingston University, Kinston school of arts, London. In 2020 she received a project grant from the Hessische Kulturstiftung for the project Flower Coordinates and established an artist initiative ArtistsAndOtherAnimals.
Thicker Than Blood I
Description
Is blood thicker than water? Does it mean any blood and what are the criteria for exclusion? Ultimate conflict of materials is used to focus on body and its vulnerability as a common denominator for human and non-human animals. Foto: Nina Siber
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Syncopations II
Description
Syncopation is well known to musicians, linguists but also to doctors. In music it provides for originality, in medicine it means collapse. Developed during lockdown, the work celebrates potential of the unexpected. Embroidery on steel is a new techn
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Drowned in mirrors
Description
Homage to the philosophical works on material imagination by French thinker Gaston Bachelard. Element: water.
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Walking The Line two
Description
Triggered by the pandemic, the work is informed by competing theoretical approaches to interspecies relationships. Sculptural process and materials are used for drawings, including molten and sawn metals, wax, and glass splitters.
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