Manifesta purposely strives to keep its distance from what are often seen as the dominant centres of artistic production, instead seeking fresh and fertile terrain for the mapping of a new cultural topography.
Manifesta 15 Barcelona took place in Barcelona and 11 surrounding cities ot its metropolitan region.
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Marianna Simnett, GB
Banquet, 2022 © Marianna Simnett. Photo © Manifesta 15 Barcelona Metropolitana / Cecília Coca.
The multi-disciplinary artist Marianna Simnett works with film, installation, drawing and sculpture. Her works center around the overlapping and at times incongruous themes of vulnerability, autonomy, control, pain, metamorphosis and care. She uses narrative structures gleaned from fairytales, fables and personal experience to creative immersive, visceral scenarios that engage notions of physical distress and release, focusing on the social, historical and economic systems deployed to control human and animal bodies.