Adriana Marmorek

Adriana Marmorek (born 1969) is a Colombian artist, exploring themes of desire through photography, video, installation and sculpture.

Marmorek has shown her work in Colombia, the United States, Argentina, Italy and Belgium, and some of her work is owned by the Museo de Arte Moderno in Cartagena de Indias. Marmorek was nominated for the 9th Luis Caballero Award for Contemporary Art in 2017.

She currently lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia.

Early life and education Adriana Marmorek was born in Bogotá, Colombia in 1969.

Using her knowledge of television and publicity, from her early studies,

From the start, Marmorek's work manifested an erotic nature. Through her first sculptures of twisted, contorted and multi-layered bronze figures that resembled a human body, the artist was able to embrace the conceptual style of art she is known for today. All of them conveyed the ideas and reoccurring themes of eroticism while also questioning the supposed liberal views of sex today. Along with the boudoir or the "Tocador" she explores other pieces of furniture on which she projects sexual imagery of the body that complement this fantasy world between furniture and body that the artist had created for this exhibition.

Similar to the way she was exploring the relationship between objects and subjects in "El Tocador", her 2013 exhibition, "Ánima" explores the relationship between love and destruction and shows through mixed media how love and destruction go hand in hand. One of the main pieces in the show is influenced by Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights" Anima is a crystal urn like the one in the painting but instead of two lovers she places two thin, gold sheets that dance around each other touching, similarly to two lovers kissing and caressing each other. This motion does not go on forever and the two wear each other down and slowly destroy each other. Another piece in the show "Penelope- Where are you?" is a machine made of wood that finds and prints out any tweet that mentions the word "love" no matter the language. As the machine prints it, it also shreds it into thin pieces of paper. Both of these pieces convey love and destruction and show how one can not exist without the other. She spent over five years delved into the investigation of relationships between people and the memories that are left lingering in specific objects from past relationship and gathered over 51 objects that she refers to as "relics". The artist believes that there are powerful moments in every love story that, with the passing of time, start to seem unreal, these "Relics" or "Reliquias" are fragments from the past that remind the viewer that those magical moments did actually happen and although that relationship is over, there are still fragments left from it. The fact that these object hold such magical moments make it hard to dispose of them, the Colombian newspaper, El Tiempo, talks about how holding on to these objects affects the psychology of the individual.

Solo exhibitions Marmorek's solo shows include:

"The Unspoken." - Remy Toledo Gallery, NY - 2006

"A través del espejo" - LA Galeria, Bogotá - 2007

"Habitación Propia" in In-situ and "Construcción Sensible" - Cámara de Comercio, Bogta - 2008

"El Tocador" - LA Galeria, Bogotá - 2009

"Punto Básico: Doble Nudo" - LA Galeria, Bogotá - 2011

"Desidium" - MUUA Colombia - 2013

"Anima" - La Galeria - 2013

"Aqua" - MAG3 Vienna, Austria - 2014

"Máquinas deseantes" Artbo - Nohra Haime Gallery - 2015

"Ensayos para Objetos de Deseo" - NH Galeria, Colombia - 2015

"AlterEGo" - Museum of Contemporary art, Bogotá - 2015

"Love Relics" - Nohra Haime Gallery, NY - 2016

"Love Relics" - Modern Art Museum, Bogotá - 2017

"Mythologies" - Galería El Nogal, Bogotá - 2015

"Heroin" - Galería Nest, Bogotá,

ARCO Colombia, Curatorial Selection by Juan Andrés Gaitán, Madrid, Spain - 2015

"Dame un Beso, Kiss Me, Küss Mich" - Tatiana Pagés Gallery, New York - 2015

"Intimate Voices," - Museo Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, Colombia - 2016

"Pasado Imperfecto" - NH Galería, Cartagena de Indias - 2016

"Schnabel, Muniz y Otras Obras Maestras" - NH Galería, Cartagena, Colombia, - 2016

"Obras en la Colección del Museo" - Museo de Arte Moderno de Cartagena, Colombia - 2016

"Medusas. Mujer Mito/Mujer Sombra" - MAC Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Bogotá, Colombia - 2016

"Creative Tech Week NYC" - Hyphen Hub, New York, -2016

"Objetus" - NH Galería, Cartagena de Indias, Colombia - 2016

"El Trueque" - Rincon Projects, Bogotá - 2016

"Hagase la luz" - Fundacion Artnexus, Bogotá - 2017

"Dark and Stormy Night: The Gothic in Contemporary Art" - Lehman College Art Gallery, New York - 2017

"New Place, New Space" - Nohra Haime Gallery, New York - 2017

"FEMALE\FEMINIST/2017" - Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts, Old Lyme, CT - 2017

"2017 Hot New Pics" - Midwest Center for Photography, Wichita, KS - 2017

"Wealth" - LA galería, Bogotá, Colombia - 2017

"Feminist Feminine" - Nohra Haime Gallery, New York - 2017

"Visiones Algorítmicas" - NH Galería, Cartagena - 2017

Adriana Marmorek: Love Relics.