#TheArtAnglePodcast : If you’ve seen the artworks of Marianna Simnett (
@mariannasimnett ), you know that it is not easy to forget them. The multidisciplinary artist who works between film, installation, drawing, painting, sculpture, and even theater, is a world-builder of surreal and sometimes horrific proportions. Her works lodge themselves deep into your psyche with an unsettling amount of imagery, dark humor, and mythologically tinted storylines where animals may become nefarious protagonists, and roadkill might come back to life.
Simnett often deals with the body as a site of pain, control, vulnerability, and intervention. And her artworks may make you squirm or even evoke fear, and you may just find yourself wondering, ‘am I supposed to be watching this?’ I think the answer is yes. While Simnett’s boundary-pushing art may not be for the faint of heart, as viewers it is important to be challenged, roused out of our complacency and our comfort zones, it is one way to become more empathetic.
On this episode of the Art Angle, Senior Editor Kate Brown (
@kate__brown ) speaks to Simnett, who also obliged us by playing the flute at the top of the episode.
🎧 Listen to the full episode at the link in bio.
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Pictured: Marianna Simnett, Blue Moon [video still], (2022). Courtesy: the artist and Société, Berlin.
![#TheArtAnglePodcast: If you’ve seen the artworks of Marianna Simnett (@mariannasimnett), you know that it is not easy to forget them. The multidisciplinary artist who works between film, installation, drawing, painting, sculpture, and even theater, is a world-builder of surreal and sometimes horrific proportions. Her works lodge themselves deep into your psyche with an unsettling amount of imagery, dark humor, and mythologically tinted storylines where animals may become nefarious protagonists, and roadkill might come back to life.Simnett often deals with the body as a site of pain, control, vulnerability, and intervention. And her artworks may make you squirm or even evoke fear, and you may just find yourself wondering, ‘am I supposed to be watching this?’ I think the answer is yes. While Simnett’s boundary-pushing art may not be for the faint of heart, as viewers it is important to be challenged, roused out of our complacency and our comfort zones, it is one way to become more empathetic.On this episode of the Art Angle, Senior Editor Kate Brown (@kate__brown) speaks to Simnett, who also obliged us by playing the flute at the top of the episode. Listen to the full episode at the link in bio.____Pictured: Marianna Simnett, Blue Moon [video still], (2022). Courtesy: the artist and Société, Berlin.](https://sp1.pixwox.com/p/pt_6811565541416868361950_0_262f0cda84ee731ae2d78483ef6d59a5.jpg?v/t51.29350-15/448922981_3266551236974590_384860234637518635_n.jpg?stp=dst-jpg_e35_s640x640_sh0.08&_nc_ht=scontent-xsp1-1.cdninstagram.com&_nc_cat=110&_nc_ohc=dx0RH0Z6z3oQ7kNvgEy5J2E&edm=AOQ1c0wBAAAA&ccb=7-5&oh=00_AYBxPBCzUJr4sIWqByV81I4jiOthtF0v9Hyd3EgMO7EP2w&oe=66891C07&_nc_sid=8b3546)
