Biography
Marika Marchese, born in Messina, Italy.
She lives and works in Milan.
Artist, light and sound installations, video.
Masters Degree in New Media, Academy of Fine Arts, Florence, Italy, 2012-2014.
Marika begins to exhibit her work at the Sensus Foundation in Florence thanks to the Italian collector Claudio Cosma, with her first solo show ‘La Cura’ in 2013. At this time, she also begins an apprenticeship in Prato's Museo Pecci alongside the important international artist Michelangelo Pistoletto. In 2015 Marika collaborated with Sislej Xhafa in a series of performances in the streets of Florence. She continues to exhibit her work in public and private spaces.
"I started my artistic career with a strong interest in pre-cinematographic techniques and its instruments, in particular, the praxinoscope, the phenachistoscope and the magic lantern. This knowledge and an ability to recreate innovative versions, led me to learn how to use 'split' images and create kaleidoscopes in video. The breaking-up of scenes, the splitting of time, objects and images, gradually led me to the creation of works as light installations made with objects of different sizes. I have always been attracted by what drives man to creating a given work or developing an idea. In my Masters' thesis I explored how an artist is stimulated by the surrounding landscape in which he or she lives, and thus by its traditions, colors and by the different ways of living. Often, these depend on environmental conditions and the nature of local populations, but are also a result of an aritist's sensibility. This social-anthropological research is the basis of my work, which uses technology, interacts with machines and sensors or more simply uses LED technology.
