Installation
Installation
Painting / Drawing
Film / Video
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Parsifal
A ‘Feminine’ Chair
As Três Marias
In Circles
Two-channel video installation
Pine wood and lace 90 × 70 × 200 cm
Oil on canvas and relief on wood 80 × 131 cm
Animation (charcoal on paper) 5 min 5 sec
2025
2025
2025
2025
_mariartini_ Maria Gomes
maria.brvo Maria Bravo
Mansur Smagambetov is a multidisciplinary artist from Kazakhstan, working across video art, performance, and public interventions. His practice explores social inequality, ecology, and historical memory through ironic and layered visual forms. Parsifal unfolds against a post-apocalyptic landscape, a scorched pine forest in Semey, where a fire killed fifteen people in 2023. In this video installation, Mansur Smagambetov reinterprets Richard Wagner’s opera, connecting it to the traumatic memory of Soviet nuclear testing in the region. The collision between local ecological context and dialogue with a canonical yet ambiguous figure in European culture becomes a metaphor for decolonial revision and for rethinking narratives of the world’s end. smagambetov Mansur Smagambetov
Maria Gomes is a painter and sculptor whose practice spans oil painting, wood sculpture and spatial installations. Gomes explores growth, perception and the anxieties of modern life, focusing on the dynamics of being perceived. Her work seeks to dissolve the boundary between viewer and artwork, creating immersive encounters that reflect on presence, absence and the shifting relationship between the observer and the observed. In As Três Marias , Maria Gomes explores painting, relief and sculpture within a single installation. Inspired by the domestic entertainment units of her childhood, the work’s multiple media are in playful dialogue, creating layered depictions of imagined beings. Gomes draws these figures into physical space through carved wood, a material resonant with her upbringing in rural Portugal.
Maria Bravo is an artist from Mexico City. Her practice sits at the intersection of performance, object and narrative, exploring themes of identity, gender and heritage. Her work engages with space, materials and culture, crafting pieces through exploratory and reflective methods. A ‘Feminine’ Chair presents a radical stance on gender. Positioned at the centre of a room, a chair and ottoman draped in lace invite reflection on assumptions about gender and traditional roles within an evolving, caring society. The work foregrounds the silent labour historically performed by women in domestic settings, seeking to generate emotional resonance and a deeper understanding of ‘feminine’ constructs. It asks what femininity is, where it originates, why it is encouraged and how it changes.
oohh.welllll Marian Obando
Marian Obando is an artist working across animation, music and dance. Experimenting with fine art materials, Obando creates animated films using watercolour, charcoal, oil pastels, acrylic, origami paper, found objects and mixed media. This multidisciplinary practice transforms everyday and traditional materials into moving images, blurring the boundaries between visual art and performance.
In Circles is a charcoal animation and song that explores grief through time.
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