Artist Statement

My most recent work challenges the conventional comfort of familiar borders between the mind and body, stemming from my personal journey overcoming a debilitative eating disorder and negative body image. Through my research on nutrition and mental health, I became interested in the dialogue between our body's interdependent Enteric Nervous System (gut) and Central Nervous System (head). The thoughts, emotions, and behavior of every human being are a result of this conversation.

I repurpose my negative food experiences and my research of the gut microbiome into bountiful resources through ritual sculptural automatism– shaping limitless combinations of elemental food into ephemeral sculptures. I capture these ritualistic sessions through video, photography, and iconography.

Bio

A native of Miami, Marilyn received her BFA in 2014 from The FIU Honors College, majoring in Video Art and Art History.

In addition to her art practice, she is also a professional arts documentary filmmaker with direction, camera and editing credits on films shot internationally for The Harpo Foundation, ICA Miami, Locust Projects, The Margulies Collection and The Miami Design District. 

Marilyn has performed at The Nerve: Performance Art Festival, The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, FilmGate: Interactive Media Festival, Miami Beach Urban Studios: Digital Oculus, and Edge Zones: Miami Performance International Festival. Her sculptural / video work was shown at Place Project Group’s pop-up at The Miami Design District and at The Sagamore Art Week 2020 exhibitions.