Fungai Marima | Burn Out (Walking), 2023

Etching

140 x 100 cm

Edition of 10

Unframed

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Fungai Marima’s work is influenced by ideas around the Body as Archive, the materiality of the body and its relationship to archiving. Her work is often self-reflective, looking into themes of displacement, memory, identity, trauma and the female body. Marima uses unique methodologies within printmaking to assist in her production of artwork, in relation to thinking through making and the performance of process. Experimenting with printmaking, performance, sculpture and sound, she physically uses the body to highlight and expose personal and collective narratives of the human experience that are often silenced or ignored within contemporary culture. Marima’s recent works, Walking, is a diptych etching work, of a live audience performance at Bonhams auction house, titled ‘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. Marima graduated from Camberwell College of Art in 2020 with a MA in Fine Art Printmaking. She has exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery, New Art Exchange and and presented artist talks at the IMPACT12 Impact Printmaking Conference 2022, and the Tate Modern, Tate Late early this year. As well as being featured in many publications, her work is in private collections across the UK.