Marian Roma b. 2002

Marián Roma (San Miguel de Allende, 2002) is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice emerges from a careful and attentive relationship with material, aiming to access and engage with its creative potential. His work investigates the materiality of identity (or the identity of material), beginning with dualities that appear self-evident but at times arrive at their dissolution: the tangible and the intangible, the public and the intimate, the real and the virtual.

Memory also appears as an important locus within this process, and Roma excavates its construction and transformation through imagery—pictorial, photographic, or subconscious. Desire and its counterpart, phobia, recur throughout his work, as do reflections on the finitude of the organic body and the plasticity and volatility of the psyche. Roma turns to ritual, insistence, and the repetition of everyday life to create works that act as intermediaries between interior life and its projection onto the “material” world, which is no less spiritual for it.