Marina Roca Díe
Madrid, 1988
Whether through thick strokes of oil paint, tightly fixing the figure of a body on canvas, or in feeble pencil-drawn outlines of a sexual relationship, what is essential in Marina’s work is the constant exploration and scrutiny of that thing we call the body.
A body, the body, our bodies—a phenomenon so fundamental and basic in our lives, but in our own flesh, so imperceptible. We live through it, in it, and sometimes, against it. We can’t live without it. It is a paradox of perception: I am not my body, but I do not exist without it. It is a vessel that contains all that I am, and yet what I am ceaselessly overflows the boundaries that enclose it.
Through representations drawn from diverse branches such as philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism, and more recently, the physical and astronomical sciences, Marina extensively explores the perplexing territory of the body, its interior, its exterior, its forms, its textures, and its content to create a powerful representation.
In the end, what all these images and representations capture is that a body is never just a body.
A body, the body, our bodies—a phenomenon so fundamental and basic in our lives, but in our own flesh, so imperceptible. We live through it, in it, and sometimes, against it. We can’t live without it. It is a paradox of perception: I am not my body, but I do not exist without it. It is a vessel that contains all that I am, and yet what I am ceaselessly overflows the boundaries that enclose it.
Through representations drawn from diverse branches such as philosophy, psychoanalysis, feminism, and more recently, the physical and astronomical sciences, Marina extensively explores the perplexing territory of the body, its interior, its exterior, its forms, its textures, and its content to create a powerful representation.
In the end, what all these images and representations capture is that a body is never just a body.
Available artworks
Me lleva el agua viva, 2025
Sólo deseo, 2025
Fui río de luz, 2025
Sólo cuerpo, 2025
Mis manos me arrastran, 2025
Para nada, para nada y para nadie, 2025
Tus muslos miran a la luna, 2025
Fluye en sombra el agua desnuda, 2025
Tú eres la marea matutina, 2024
Among green leaves and blossoms sweet, 2024
Hit the bottom and escape, 2024
For always night and day, 2024
Yo soy el grito del primer pájaro, 2024
Down into the shimmer, 2024
Warm impermanence, 2024
Into the light of the dark black night, 2024
Ever changing as it flows, 2024
Sun at night III, 2023
Solar flare II, 2023
Sun at night I, 2023
Sun at Night IV, 2023
Sun at night II, 2023
White Sun, Black Sun I, 2023
White Sun, Black Sun II, 2023
Sun in heat IV, 2022
Sun in heat I, 2022
Sun in heat II, 2022
Sun in heat III, 2022
