Marina Páez, most well known as Morsh, is a Visual Artist born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, who currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany.
She works with diverse media, ranging from painting and industrial-like, hand-modelled ceramics to inflatable sculptures, installations, photography, and the use of technology.
Apart from her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the UNA (Universidad Nacional de las Artes), she has drawn significant influence from her previous studies in Industrial Design at the UBA (Universidad de Buenos Aires).
Artist Statement
I am interested in the concept of identity and all its possible ways of construction:
through the places where we inhabit, the icons, the symbols, the stereotypes, the encounter of natural and artificial and the dichotomy between inner and outer worlds.
The different media, materials and colours used also put an accent on this, and sometimes, a dystopic communion between material and image exists.
A thin line connects in a non-literal speech, the ways of expressing my perception on the interaction between people, industry and nature, exploring the value of everyday objects, massive production, the ephemeral and the long-lasting, in a clash of worlds that construct the contemporary being.
We inevitably find ourselves modified by an industrialised world, ruled by a plethora of images, where sex is just another form of power and control.
Education
2003-2008 – Bachelor in Fine Arts, UNA (Universidad Nacional de las Artes)
2000-2003 – Industrial Design, UBA (Universidad de Buenos Aires)
Awards and Contests
2018 – Kokkenet Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018 – Prize to the Visual Arts Itaú Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017 – Grant to the Artistic Creation, FNA (Fondo Nacional de las Artes), Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017 – National Salon of Visual Arts, New media and Installation, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010 – National Salon of Visual Arts, New Media and Installations, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2009 – National Salon of Visual Arts, New media and Installations, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2009 – National Salon of Visual Arts, Castagnino-Macro Museum, Rosario, Santa Fé, Argentina
2008 – Curriculum Cero Prize, Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Exhibitions
2025 – Sin Objeto, The Performance Kitchen – Metronomen, Copenhaguen, Denmark
2024 – Kritkolln, Berlin, Germany
2021 – Kokkenet Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020 – Dada Post, Berlin, Germany
2019 – Istanbul Performance Art Online Exhibition
2019 – Facing Realities, The Art Union Kollektiv, Berlin, Germany
2018 – Microferia de Arte. Rosario, Santa Fé, Argentina
2017 – ArteBA Focus Art Fair. Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017 – LMDM, Un lugar en el mundo Art Gallery. Acassuso, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2017 – El filo en la boca del tajo, Acéfala Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016 – Extremidad, corte, amor, Popa Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016 – La sexual Magdalena de Proust. MAC / MBA, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Bahía Blanca, Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016 – Cuando el pensamiento se vuelve forma, Solo Show, Acéfala Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2015 – Zoo, El Mirador Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2015 – Colada, CasaA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2015 – Gira Artlab, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2015 – El país de los juguetes, Mi Micromuseo Art Space, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2015 – La casa erótica, CasaA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2015 – Pase y cierre la puerta, Milion, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2015 – Animals, CasaA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2014 – KDA, Kiosco de Artistas, Bravard Art House, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2014 – Porno suavecito, Conectarte Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2014 – BEXP, Site-specific Installation, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2014 – L’ Illustré, Solo Show, Troyes, France
2014 – FACA, Festival de Activación Cultural Autogestionado, Solo Show, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2014 – Summer Trash, Cultural Centre Mi Casa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013 – BEXP, Site-specific Installation, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013 – Divertime, La Sin Futuro Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013 – Llenos de amor, Braga Menéndez Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013 – Susi: La isla del placer, collaboration, Isla Flotante Art Gallery Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013 – ML, Solo Show, Typus Raamgalerie, Rotterdam, Holland
2012 – KDA, Kiosco de Artistas, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2012 – La expansión: conceptual series of intervened media, Solo Show. Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011 – Memoria lúdica, Solo Show. MMAMM, Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno de Mendoza, Mendoza, Argentina
2009 – Expotrastiendas Art Fair. Isidro Miranda Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2009 – Sex and Violence, Appetite Art Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2009 – Festín, Polímero, Collective Art Group, Isidro Miranda Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2006 – NN, Nébula, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2002 – S/T, El Baldoquín Cultural Centre, Granada, Spain