Great Ormond Street Hospital, Arts
Marysa’s photographic practice is rooted within portraiture and concerned with human behaviour, identity, communication, exchange and interaction. Participation and collaborative possibilities are vital to her process. Works are an exploration and observation of how people co-exist, relate to and interact with each other, and the various environments they inhabit.
“I use photography as a tool to articulate experiences about our lives, how we live them and how we choose to represent ourselves. Participation in photography is a way to assert our place in the world. My projects are cross cultural in nature, as I work in several countries on the same ideas. I build connections across communities, societies and cultures. I aim to create thoughtful and playful photographic works, that come into being through social interaction”
Blue Bag
Currently Marysa is working on a project talking to and making portraits with Women in the UK and Mexico, aiming to use the images as a starting point for an exchange between the women. She is resident artists at GOSH Arts (Great Ormond Street Hospital) and producing her first book, Blue Bag a 10-year international project with Stuart Smith of Smith Design.
Blue Bag Mexico 2016
Blue Bag Marysa 2017
Blue Bag Kochi Mexico
The Conversation, Mexico and UK 2018
Currently I am working with women of all ages in my home city London and
locations across Mexico, talking to them about the kind of Change they want at home and globally. We discuss issues including safety, home, consent, power, machismo, femicide, religion, abortion rights, freedom, equality, assumed and given roles, access to knowledge and women’s rights in the work place. Use familiar household items, their bodies and relevant locations we make portraits together to start a conversation about Change. Over the coming months the portraits made as part of The Conversation will be a foundation for an online exchange between women in the UK and Mexico. This project is supported by All Change Arts, London, with additional support from MARCO museum and ITESO university in Mexico.
The Conversation Rajna, London
The Conversation Flourish, London
The Conversation Lorena, Mexico
The Conversation Isabel, Mexico
The Conversation Hanna, Mexico
The Conversation Andrea, Mexico
The Conversation Daniela, Mexico
The Conversation Claudia & Sofia, Mexico
The Conversation Brenda, Mexico
The Conversation Anai, Mexico
all images © Marysa Dowling
