Mixed Media
Untitled (from the series Broken Things), 2010.
Golden thread, C-Type print, paper, wooden frame.
Sculpture
Untitled (from the series Broken Things), 2010.
Porcelain, resin-plaster, enamel paint, varnish, transfer-print.
Livia Marin (b. in 1973) lives and works in London.Trained as a sculptor, Marin earned her MFA from Universidad de Chile. She is currently completing her PhD in Art at Goldsmith College, University of London. Recent exhibitions include “Broken Things”, House of Propellers, “El lugar de lo invisible”, Sala Gasco, Santiago, Chile; “Manuf®actured: The Conspicuous Transformation of Everyday Objects”, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon, USA (2009); “Poetics of the Handmade”, The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, USA, “Maximinimalist”, Institute of Visual Arts (Inova), Milwaukee, USA (2007); “Multiplication”. Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile (2006); “IV Bienal MERCOSUR”, Puerto Alegre, Brasil (2003). Marin was nominated on five occasions to the National Fund for the Arts and Culture (FONDART), Government of Chile.
House of Propellers is a contemporary art and design gallery based in Clerkenwell, London. It specialises in giving a platform to new, upcoming and undiscovered talents and, since opening in 2009, has been instrumental in launching the careers of several successful artists, designers, illustrators and photographers.