Fungai Marima
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Copyright © Fungai Marima. 2023. All rights reserved.

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Artist Statement
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846 Tactile memory Stay At Home Save Lives Kumba series Body . Performances
Print
Etchings, Digital prints Screen prints
Paint
Figures
Video Community Projects and Commissions Contact
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Copyright © Fungai Marima. 2023. All rights reserved.

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  • ​Body Series is an on-going body of work that is at the centre of Marima’s practice. It is an investigation that focuses on the foundation of her practice weaving through themes related to trauma, the body as landscape, displacement, memory.  The body is Marima’s main material, a material she draws inspiration, uses as a catalyst to create body prints, a mould onto which various materials engage with to expand her process of making.  Body is a series that accesses other body of works within Marima’s work and is part of and is separate to everything she does. Body is a studio practice, a moving and shifting idea.  Pieces viewed in this section interrogate space, movement, personal and collective emotional experiences, through various media.

  • Untitled, 2022

    Fungai Marima, image courtesy of artist
  • 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.

  • Untitled, 2022

    Installation shot

    Fungai Marima, image courtesy of artist

  • Untitled, 2022

    Fungai Marima, image courtesy of artist
  • Untitled, 2022

    Fungai Marima, image courtesy of artist
  • Untitled, 2022

    Fungai Marima, image courtesy of artist
  • Untitled, 2022 

    Installation shot at Withheld 2022. Safehouse 2, Peckham

    Fungai Marima, image courtesy of artist

  • Untitled, 2022

    Fungai Marima; courtesy of artist

  • 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