Marionne Contreras
As a self-taught visual artist, Marionne Contreras draws influences and knowledge of materials from the experience she gained from her trysts with different fields – taking up Doctor of Dental Medicine in College, and then Fashion Design, until eventually, she decided to practice as an artist full time.
BIOGRAPHY
Marionne Contreras (b. 1992) is a visual artist who works with an array of materials and media to produce heterogeneity of output, from fiberglass sculptures to acrylic paintings on wood to assemblages to textile-based works. These are often with poetic themes of memory, intimacy, femininity, synthesis between fiction and reality.
Her hand on different materials was employed in her 2018 one-person exhibition in the Cultural Center of the Philippines entitled, A Collection Of Bruises, Curses, Baby Teeth. She has presented different works, such as fiberglass installations, mixed media assemblages, textile based soft sculptures, drawings, neon signage, using them as a means to tell a personal narrative which is always present in her works despite her conscious decision to highlight their ornamental nature – to always stage them as a showcase of beauty given the parameters in which the very idea of “the beautiful” is meant to work. This is evident in her Plant Series, an ongoing series of work which was started in 2018.
Currently, Marionne Contreras shifted her focus to textile based works. Having borne a child in 2019, she veered away temporarily to works that require the use of toxic materials. Her current works, including her Plant Series, span from embroidery, hand-woven tapestry, and soft sculptures.
Contreras works has been regularly exhibited in various solo and group exhibitions in the Philippines.
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