Livia marin biography of mahatma

Born in Santiago, Chile
Works in London, United Kingdom

Two common threads unite Livia Marin’s sculptural installations. The first is her interest in transforming commonplace objects.

The second thread is the tension that occurs between the singularity of an object (even a manufactured one) and the effect produced when objects are displayed en masse.

Biography of mahatma gandhi

Much of the power of her work comes from repetition, sometimes to vast proportions.

Marin works with objects whose importance is often dismissed because of their ubiquity &#; bottle caps, plastic cups, and in Ficciones de un uso, lipsticks.

When a friend pointed out that each woman wore her lipstick down in a different fashion, Marin began to explore whether lipsticks could function as a sculptural work that emphasized individuality over uniformity. They came in a cohesive color palette designed specifically to attract attention.

They could be molded like ceramic, plastic or glass into whateve