Always Already Lost
Marina SachsMarina Sachs (@marina2mp3) is a multimedia artist and educator currently living in Gainesville, FL. Their work includes the practice of 35mm photography, site-specific installations, and time-specific durational performances.
Leveraging a female gaze perspective, their research and studio practice primarily examines desire (specifically through addiction and commodified femme bodies) as played out in private and public spaces in contemporary capitalism. Their work aims to produce “future” images, collaborative alternatives, and transformative antidotes to the realities of the American dreamscape. More about Marina, their work, and commissions at www.marinasachs.com.
IT BURNS AND I CAN’T STOP (2019-2020)
Recycled Material, Spray Foam
This Flamin’ Hot sculpture pushes beyond corner-store snack, and looks at how hold weight in conversations about food insecurity, artificially-generated addictions, and privilege. The sculptures' super-size uncanniness opens up a humorous and playful space to imagine ‘what if’ and ‘would I’ about these cheetos. Would you try a cheeto this big?
BL_NK ME (2020)
Photographic Print, Spray Foam
BL_NK ME explores representations of the female body refusing to be confined to pornographic or explicit private-publics. What do words mean when inscribed over someone’s body? Sprung from everyday experiences of being a woman, these images play on the tension between sexuality, agency, and control of their own images?
“I WISH I HAD SOMETHING PROFOUND TO SAY” (2020)
Spray Foam
Recycled Material, Spray Foam
This Flamin’ Hot sculpture pushes beyond corner-store snack, and looks at how hold weight in conversations about food insecurity, artificially-generated addictions, and privilege. The sculptures' super-size uncanniness opens up a humorous and playful space to imagine ‘what if’ and ‘would I’ about these cheetos. Would you try a cheeto this big?
BL_NK ME (2020)
Photographic Print, Spray Foam
BL_NK ME explores representations of the female body refusing to be confined to pornographic or explicit private-publics. What do words mean when inscribed over someone’s body? Sprung from everyday experiences of being a woman, these images play on the tension between sexuality, agency, and control of their own images?
“I WISH I HAD SOMETHING PROFOUND TO SAY” (2020)
Spray Foam