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• Paintings
• Drawings
• Installations
  • Barnardos
  • Fireplace III
  • Fireplace II
  • Locus Solus
  • Longstories
  • Fireplace
  • Mappamundi
• Projects
  • Sisters
  • Capital City
  • The Mask
  • The School Uniform

Marenka’s paintings deal with a kind of theatre, an artificiality of appearance and, at the same time, insist on an authenticity of process. It is a process that seems ambiguous and somehow split, that goes beyond itself and makes sense of its own ambiguity.

Images refer to mental states rather than narratives. Layers of images and of paint reveal what’s underneath the surface; memories of regret, mistakes, hesitations and dreams. There’s a sense of the cut up. Anthropomorphic photographs, video, painting installations- they have an original preoccupation with masks, with transmutation, and with a kind of non-theatrical theatre.