Marianna Rothen
For years, Marianna Rothen walked the runways of the world’s biggest fashion designers such as Marc Jacobs or Jil Sander, and collaborated with prestigious magazines before taking a leap, a one-way trip behind the lense...> Read more
«I started taking photographs very early, around fourteen years old. During the day, I posed for photographers, often men. And at night I photographed my model friends. It’s behind the lense that I finally found a way to express myself» she reminisces. Solitude, femininity, gender, the themes explored by the artist, born in Canada in 1982, are expressed in old-fashioned, political and intriguing visual tales. With subtle plays on the light and carefully crafted sets, she places her models - wearing retro costumes and wigs - in 1950s, 1960s nostalgia.
Marianna Rothen crafts a matriarchal society where men don’t belong anymore. Absent from her two first series, Snow and Rose (2005-2012) and Shadows in Paradise (2015-2016), they appear as wax mannequins, as objects, in Mail Order (2017-2018) and Making I Real, created during the 2020 lockdown. Her work has been exhibited in several countries, notably the Netherlands, Germany and the United States.
Marianna Rothen is represented by the Galerie Polka since 2024.
