Marianna Angel – Lucuma Tears

NIA Gallery debuts the first European exhibition by Miami-based artist Marianna Angel, titled Lucuma Tears curated by Claire Breukel. Inspired by personal experiences, female personas, underground music and art scenes, fellow performance artists, and more, Angel’s wide-ranging approach to media is grounded by a strong conceptual voice. Writing, collage, drawing, video, and music form part of Angel’s repertoire, and become tools through which to address narratives of wellbeing, sexual life, and female empowerment.

Lucuma is a healthy fruit that sustains the body, and tears, being a double entendre of crying and of ripping or tearing, an action used in the artist’s work. For the exhibition, Angel has created a series of new collages that compile repurposed camera film, found objects, and ephemera, into visual stories that express various states of being and suggest stories. This will be accompanied by an intimate text and video-based artworks.