by Marianna Ignataki
On Marianna Ignataki’s Work
By Zandie Brockett
Sexual and surreal, Marianna Ignataki’s works on paper exude
fantastical ideas of life and the self upon confronting the stagnancies
of our present day world. Working primarily with color pencil,
Ignataki’s facility with this graphite medium enables her to
photo-realistically enter a subliminal world, one filled with symbolic
images of her own mythology. Consumed by the psycho-emotional,
specifically loneliness, helplessness, agony, passivity and despair, she
frequently uses women or mythically created, deviant forms of the
female self to play protagonist in a magic and ritual filled sphere.
Given the occultism that fills each of her drawn works, it is only fit
that symmetry and geometry play an integral role in her quest to
identify and release the emotions of her own mythology into the world
which she contextualizes herself.
Entering into the realm of
performance and ready-made-object installations, Ignataki brings her
mystical world into a realist realm, one that can be experienced and
touched, so to bring the self deeper into the throws of a personal lore.
Zandie Brockett is an independent curator.
Beijing, June 2012.
