About

{From a little town in the Rockies. Often At large. Now based between Brussels, BE and Stockholm, SE.}

Marina Cherry is…of a breed that is hard to define. As many humans are, she is a multitude of layered bits and pieces. A contortionist-acro-dancer, educated at ESAC (Brussels 2016-2019) and ENC (Montreal 2014-2016) she is now working on her solo show Only Bones v.1.6 as well as collaborative projects around Europe, including companies Les Argonauts and Petri Dish and Cirkus Cirkör. Her research-based approach to creation and performing puts her somewhere between dance, contemporary circus and physical theatre; with her body as the tool of manipulation and method for redefining traditional constructs and deconstructing techniques to find her own language.

Marina does not base her work on any particular method or ideology, rather she prefers to find continually fresh views for inspiration This diverse palette at times leaves it difficult to define, at the risk of being perceived as unfocused or a vague dilettante. The jury is out on this one. At the same time, there are recurring themes that the artist seems to work around: humanism, limitations and uncertainty, questioning of image and norms, absurdism, as well as grotesque irony. Developing a refined aesthetic will only be told with time, but in the meanwhile she is intrigued by notions of form, abstractions and quality themselves. The daring claims come with the territory for Marina, as she has seemingly always ventured and aspired to go as far as possible. And she’s always up for the challenge. These approaches come with their own consciousness that perfection and original innovation are an unattainable fallacy; with an acceptance for this, genuine ideas may unfold as freely as they slip past unnoticed and can begin to reinvent themselves through the work.