Mariana Hahn investigates archives and archival processes, the memory of her body and her own genealogy, and their transfer to other media, be it paper, copper or other organic and mineral materials. It is precisely the water, the salt, that allows the artist to affix her own silhouette on wide and thin copper plates, when she prints her body covered with sweat after running, when she applies a few lines with her tongue, or when she whispers poems near piles of salt on copper. Her body becomes the substrate and vector of memory. The marked surfaces become her agents of preservation and transmission. The body, however, requires the intervention of intermediaries such as water, salt, air, light, etc. The body becomes the substrate and vector of memory. Her works have been exhibited in many places, such as PS120, Haus am Lützowplatz, Diskurs, Berlin, Germany; The Mountain View Museum in Shenzen, Pan Meigu Female Art Museum, Fujian, Redtory Museum of Contemporary Art in Guangzhou, China; Salon Oktobarski - Belgrade Art Biennale, Galleria Mario Iannelli in Rome, Trafo Museum of Contemporary Art, Stettin, Poland and the Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia; Chat Mill6 Foundation Hong Kong.

Dans sa pratique elle interroge les archives et les processus d’archivage, la mémoire de son corps et de sa propre généalogie ainsi que leur transfert vers d’autres supports, qu’ils soient papier, cuivre ou d’autre matières organiques et minérales. L’eau, le sel, justement, permettent à l’artiste d’apposer sa propre silhouette sur de larges et fines plaques de cuivre, lorsqu’elle y imprime son corps couvert de sueur après avoir couru, lorsqu’elle y inscrit de sa langue quelques lignes ou lorsqu’à proximité de monceaux de sel, elle murmure des poèmes. Son corps devient le substrat et le vecteur de la mémoire. Les surfaces marquées deviennent ses agents de conservation et de transmission. Le corps nécessite cependant l’intervention d’intermédiaires comme l’eau, le sel, l’air, la lumière, etc. Ses œuvres ont été exposées dans de nombreux lieux, comme PS120, Diskurs, à Berlin, Allemagne ; The Moutain View à Shenzen, Ding Shung, Musée de Fujian, Musée d'art contemporain de Redtory à Guangzhou, Chine ; Salon Oktobarski - Biennale d'art de Belgrade, Gelleria Mario Iannelli à Rome, Trafo Station, Musee contemporaine, Stettin, Pologne; Biennale for Young Art, Moscou, Russe.

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