Marifer Barrero
Marifer completed an MA in Fine Art at The Slade in 2008. She won the Bernardo Elosúa Award last year and exhibits widely in London, Mexico and America. An early career artist, she has already had international solo shows at venues including the University of Monterrey, Mexico, Museo Latino, Nebraska and Casa Nuevo León, Texas and is preparing for a major solo show in Mexico this year. The aim of Marifer’s work is to research spatial senses of self,observing that everything is interconnected and interdependent: there is no gap between the world and ourselves. Nature, plants, landscape, earth, sky, enclosed spaces and simple everyday life observations are the main motifs. Textiles, paper, found objects and plants are predominating materials. Containing, folding, sewing, wrapping and embracing are fundamental actions.
Triple bush and vase
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Sculpture
22cm x 24cm
Recycledreused paper, Glue, Wood sticks
Paper cut by hand and mould
Marifer has created the three pieces displayed here especially for murmurART. They are part of a new project exploring the use of recycled/reused paper for the “reconstruction” of “trees” and vegetation, striving to question and investigate the problems that arise from the massive consumption of paper products. The visual tools of Marifer’s projects are experiments in the use of traditional paper cutting techniques and its vast possibilities as constructed paper environments.
£350
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