Through film, installation, drawing, and sculpture, Marianna Simnett’s art challenges the way bodies are perceived and imagined. She earned her MA at the Slade School of Art in 2013, won the Jerwood/FVU Award in 2014, and was shortlisted for the Jarman Award in 2017. Her work has shown in internationally, including in solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Zürich(2019), Copenhagen Contemporary, (2019), FACT Liverpool (2019), and the New Museum (2018), and Matt's Gallery, London (2017), among others. Her work The Needle and the Larynx (2016) was featured in the 2019 Walker exhibition The Body Electric.
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Maggot: Marianna Simnett on the Malleable Body
“I don’t want to be a man. I was simply playing mischief with the systems putting bodies in boxes of cans and can’ts and handing out impossible ideals of how to sound and look.” Marianna Simnett discusses The Needle and the Larynx, her work in the Walker-organized exhibition, The Body Electric, now on view at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.