Marina Vargas
Bio
Marina Vargas (Granada, 1980) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work focuses on revisiting classical iconography, the sacred and mythology from a critical and feminist perspective. She has held solo exhibitions at institutions such as CAC Málaga (Destripando el canon, 2015), the ABC Museum in Madrid (Las líneas del destino, 2017) and the Llamazares Gallery (El cuerpo del amor, 2021). In 2025, she presented Revelaciones at the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, a project that will travel to the Museo Regional de Querétaro del INAH, also in 2025. He has participated in fairs such as ARCO Madrid, Zona Maco, Cosmoscow, Artinternational Istanbul, Estampa and UVNT, and his work forms part of collections such as DKV, Studiolo and Fundación Enaire, which awarded him the First Prize for Photography (2023), among many other public and private collections.
Statement
Marina Vargas' practice revolves around a reinterpretation of the classical canon and the sacred from a feminist perspective. Her work, with its neo-baroque aesthetic, combines beauty and brutality to confront the myths that have shaped patriarchal narratives. Through sculptures, photographs and symbolic objects, she addresses sexuality, faith and power as territories of conflict and revelation. In her series Revelations, the figure of Mary Magdalene becomes an emblem of resistance and the recovery of the female voice in spiritual and artistic history.
