Withheld, 2022.

Untitled, 2022 is a site specific piece that engages with architecture and space. A performance piece that thinks about our personal and collective engagement with space, revealing the often ignored, addressing ideas around the artists identity, as an African woman from Zimbabwe navigating London’s spaces and as psychotherapist Susie Orbach suggests, ‘inscribing’ oneself into an environment.

Untitled, is a piece made from the artists body, Vaseline, and charcoal. Materials used in this body of work except for the Vaseline where part of the exhibition, the artist explores the notion of ritual, material, giving access of process to the audience is integral to how the work is experienced and/or understood.

Marima’s recent works, Walking, is a diptych etching work, of a live audience performance at Bonhams auction house, titled Burn Out (Walking), in which the artist walked onto two large zinc plates that had oil based ink thinly applied onto them for 8hrs. The remaining vestiges of the performance were then etched and printed utilising processes that push the boundaries of traditional printmaking. Marima was interested in recording and archiving this moment through print work, video and a series of photographs. Her focus was in exploring the gestures and movements of the body to speak on real life stories of the everyday, in which the ‘normal’ 8 hour working day tends to leave people burnt out, exhausted and creatively uninspired.

April 2023