Bride
Photography – 2015
C-Print Front-Mounted to Plexiglas
130 × 168,8 cm (51.2 × 66.5 in)
White Wooden Frame
The photograph Bride is part of the series Cono Sur. It was taken in the Salar de Uyuni, the world’s largest salt flat, covering around 10,000 km². In this piece, the artist appears in a blood-red stained wedding dress, the color spreading into the water of the flooded, seemingly endless, surreal landscape. Bride engages with the myth of marriage in all its dichotomies—from a festive ceremony to an economic contract, from fertility to transience. The red-stained white dress expresses the existential aspects of femininity and corporeality, of creation and fertility, of guilt and suffering. In Latin America, a high percentage of marriages involve physical violence. However, Marcin is less of a victim here and more of a demonstrator.
EXHIBITIONS
S: Solo Exhibition | G: Group Exhibition | Sc: Screening
OPHELIA, Stadtgalerie, Saarbrücken, 2019 (S)
OPHELIA, SCHAUWERK Sindelfingen, 2019 (S)
Todos los ojos en Bolivia, Museo National de Arte, La Paz, 2017 (G)
Todos los ojos en Bolivia, Palacio Portales Cochabamba, Bolivia, 2017 (G)
Greatest Love of All, Whitney Houston Biennial, New York, 2017 (G)
01111010 (….), Esther Donatz Gallery as part of Kino der Kunst, Munich, Germany, 2015 (S)
LECTURES
Masterclass – Nadja Verena Marcin, masterclass and Q&A, Festival Internacional Denis Stoklos de Solo Performance, Irati, 2022
Masterclass – Performance, fotografia e cinema: O processo criativo de Nadja Marcin, masterclass and Q&A, Cabíria Festival & Prêmio de Roteiro, Rio de Janeiro, 2020
CATALOGS
Uwe Rüth, Kimberly Rhodes, Susan Silas, Liam Gillick, and Kathy Battista, Nadja Verena Marcin – Ophelia, Dresden: Sandstein, 2019.
PRESS
Priscilla Frank, “Feminist Artist’s How To Undress In Front Of Your Husband Skewers Retro Mansplaining”, Huffington Post, New York, 2017
Thomas Volkmann, “Taucherbrille und Kaktusschwert – Nadja Verena Marcin beschäftigt sich mit Frauenbildern / Live-Performance im Schauwerk”, Sindelfinger Zeitung/Böblinger Zeitung, Sindelfingen, 2019.
“Kunst im Aquarium? – Die Performance Ophelia im Schauwerk Sindelfingen”, Kunscht! TV Show, Südwestrundfunk, Sindelfingen, 2019.
Andreas Langen, “Ophelia-Performance – Nadja Verena Marcin feiert die rebellische Frau in Sindelfingen”, SWR Radio, Stuttgart, 2019
CREDITS
Max Toranzos; Concept, Art Director & Performance: Nadja Verena Marcin
SPONSORS
The project was supported by the KIOSKO Residency