Marina Guiu Almenara is a multidisciplinary artist based in Barcelona. She uses visual art and theatre as political activism for children’s rights and against sexual violence. Through illustration, painting, printmaking, writing, and performing theatre, she seeks to generate tension between the poetic and the political, creating a bridge between the social and the artistic.
The main objective during my residency at NES has been to explore the visual side of my project “La Muda. Un agujero entre el esternón y el ombligo”(*), an artistic documentary narrated in first person about sexual violence, including assault against children. The documentary is structured in three parts: a theatre play, a compilation of testimonies, and an illustrated book.
I’ve explored the similarities between the Icelandic landscape—volcanoes, lava, cracked earth—to the feelings that remain in your body once you have been sexually assaulted—fear, rage, shame, nausea. I’ve been so inspired by the Spákonufell silhouette and the stunning colors of the sunsets and midnight sun during this month in Skagaströnd.
(*) “The Mute. A hole between the sternum and the navel”