Maria
Marshall
Maria
Marshall
Marshall
Childhood is at the core of video artist Maria Marshall's oeuvre ever since she created her seminal When I Grow Up I Want to be a Cooker, in 1998. Marshall draws from her personal memories, and her own children act in her carefully staged films that blur the boundaries between fiction and autobiography.
Maria Marshall's videos place the innocence, fears and experiences of childhood in an adult world that is in essence corrupt and dangerous. This gap between the age and the situation and the attitude the young actors find themselves in bring about feelings of strangeness and even unease, which are all the more powerful that the images are extremely appealing.
Maria Marshall's œuvre is notably represented in the Pinault Collection by Don’t Let the T-Rex Get the Children (1999), a video that progressively reveals a smiling child's straitjacket. It was presented in the exhibition À Triple tour. Collection Pinault (“triple locked”) at the Paris Conciergerie, in 2013.
Maria Marshall's videos place the innocence, fears and experiences of childhood in an adult world that is in essence corrupt and dangerous. This gap between the age and the situation and the attitude the young actors find themselves in bring about feelings of strangeness and even unease, which are all the more powerful that the images are extremely appealing.
Maria Marshall's œuvre is notably represented in the Pinault Collection by Don’t Let the T-Rex Get the Children (1999), a video that progressively reveals a smiling child's straitjacket. It was presented in the exhibition À Triple tour. Collection Pinault (“triple locked”) at the Paris Conciergerie, in 2013.
