Marina Vargas (Granada, Spain, 1980) has a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Granada where she later completed a Master's Degree in Art Production and Research. Her artistic language focuses on classical iconography, the sacred, and mythology, creating replicas made in monumental formats under a committed feminist gaze that permeates all of her work.

 

The realization of her projects is preceded by long periods of study, research, and specialized readings on the topics of history she addresses, so she invests many hours before creating each of his sculptures. The artist carries out her work, inserted in the neo-baroque, with careful staging. In his works there are constant dialogues around the ideas of Western religious Judeo-Christian idolatries, sexuality, femininity, violence, love, and desire; a work full of drama, brutality, and combined beauty. We thus find works in which the revisionist symbolism of contemporary identities reigns, creating a new hybrid and monstrous model of beauty that has completely forgotten the silence of the classical canon.

 

She has received numerous awards and scholarships, as well as individual and group exhibitions and fairs in which she has participated, such as Arco-Madrid, Zona Maco-México DF, Cosmoscow art fair or ArtInternational Istanbul, among others.

 

We can find her work in important public collections such as; ARTIUM (Basque Museum of Contemporary Art) in Vitoria , CAAC (Andalusian Center of Contemporary Art) in Seville, CAAM (Atlantic Center of Modern Art) in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria or CAC Center of Contemporary Art in Málaga, among many others.