Jenna Marvin

Born in 1999 in Magadan, Russia, Jenna Marvin explores the body and its transformations through performance, visual arts and sculptural experimentation. Her work addresses the instability of identity in an era of technological and biological change; a battleground for cultural, political and gender conflicts, the ‘dismantled’ body paves the way for new forms of existence. Jenna Marvin deconstructs traditional symbols of power, authority and masculinity by introducing fragile, painful and strange figures. Her dramatic aesthetic references drag activist culture and the Viennese Actionism art movement. The themes of violence, fear, alienation and despair — elements that define her native region of northern Russia, once the seat of the Soviet gulags and now considered the graveyard of the living — are sublimated in the gestures of her creations.