Marisa Bernotti
Journals/Agendas
2021
Mixed media on paper
16.5” x 11.5” each
2021
Mixed media on paper
16.5” x 11.5” each
Handbag 6
2021
Mixed media
Dimensions variable
2021
Mixed media
Dimensions variable
About the work
The Journal drawings are a series about myself. I have been writing in datebook journals since I was 13. In this journal I write about what I must do—pay bills, remember birthdays, attend meetings as a business woman, or keep appointments as a mother. I always drew in my journal without thinking too much about it. I realized some time ago that what I had been drawing, the characters, abstractions, animals, houses, were all part of an absurd world that exists in my imagination.
The two sculptural works in the show are part of a series called "Handbags That Are Not Handbags." In these works, the handbags are deconstructed and reinvented with paint and sculptural additions. They address the difference between the way others see us and the way we feel inside. I want to make the viewer feel uncomfortable because they see a bag, but it does not function as a bag anymore.
The Journal drawings are a series about myself. I have been writing in datebook journals since I was 13. In this journal I write about what I must do—pay bills, remember birthdays, attend meetings as a business woman, or keep appointments as a mother. I always drew in my journal without thinking too much about it. I realized some time ago that what I had been drawing, the characters, abstractions, animals, houses, were all part of an absurd world that exists in my imagination.
The two sculptural works in the show are part of a series called "Handbags That Are Not Handbags." In these works, the handbags are deconstructed and reinvented with paint and sculptural additions. They address the difference between the way others see us and the way we feel inside. I want to make the viewer feel uncomfortable because they see a bag, but it does not function as a bag anymore.
Marisa Bernotti is a multi-disciplinary artist. In 2013 the Board of Soriano in Uruguay, granted her public recognition for her fundamental contribution to the development of the land in artistic activity. In the same year, she was selected as an artist of Mercosur for her exhibition "Eyes that speak, mouths that remain silent", a show for women's rights. She was a finalist for the Poster of the 19th Montevideo Children's and Youth Book Fair in 2019. In 2020 she participated in the SVA Residencies in Art Practice. Their work was exhibited in many countries such as Uruguay, Argentina, Italy and the United States. Bernotti bases her work on feelings, news, the frivolity of the moment, excess, diseases and injustices, which she recreates with her own imagination. She expresses this with an excess of color and a vivid palette in unimaginable combinations. She works on canvas, papers, books, textile, objects, design puppets, and does performance. She is involved with the I found U global collective of interdisciplinary artists.
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