Marina Guiu Almenara is a multidisciplinary artist working in visuals and theatre, based in Barcelona. Using arts as political activism for children’s rights and against sexual violence to women. Through illustration, painting, printmaking, writing, and performing theatre, she seeks to generate a tension between the poetic and the political creating a bridge between the social and the artistic.

The main objective during my residency at Fish Factory was to explore the visual side of my project “La Muda. Un agujero entre el esternón y el ombligo”(*), a documentary art project about sexual assault of children and sexual violence narrated in first person; structured in three parts: a theatre play, a compilation of testimonies and an illustrated book.

I’ve been focused on exploring the similarities between the Icelandic landscapes, volcanoes, lava and the cracks opened on the earth, to the feelings that remain in your body once you have been sexually assaulted: fear, rage, shame, nausea. The result is a collection of dry-points and different monotypes with the same sinuous and mysterious shapes of the landscapes surrounding Stöðvarfjörður. All this using the small and powerful etching press in the factory.

I’m feeling immensely grateful to been able to share all this process and daily life with my loved fellows, creating real support and safe spaces for listening, taking care of each other, crying, laughing, carving spoons, doing ceramics, printing cyanotypes and sharing everything. A lovely April.

(*) “The Mute. A hole between the sternum and the navel”

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