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My visual art practice explores identity, memory, and emotional states through drawing, photography, installation, and experimental film.
THE COLORS OF ME
Photography 2025
This photographic series explores identity through color, portraiture, and gesture. Using body painting and symbolic elements, the images reflect my Indian and Tanzanian heritage and memories of growing up near the Indian Ocean.
Medium:
Digital photography with body painting
The Colors Within 84,1cm x 59,4cm
Adornment & Identity, 29,7cm x 42,0 cm
Fusion of Colors 29.7 cm x 42.0 cm
Cultural Reflection, 42cm x 59,4cm
STATES OF HOLDING
Mixed media on paper, 2025 -ongoing
Medium:
Acrylic, ink, and colored pencils on paper
Mixed media drawings exploring emotional states such as presence, tension, and connection through simplified human forms and color.
Mother, child, 29.7 cm x 42.0 cm
Free, but here 29.7 cm x 42.0 cm
The colors of me
Still, but present, 29.7 cm x 42.0 cm
PROFFESIONAL STATEMENT
My visual art practice explores the body as a site of experience, memory, and transformation. Working across mixed media on paper, canvas, video, installation, and body-based photography.
I develop figurative forms that register states of pressure, suspension, grounding, release, and protection.
The works operate as sequential structures in which identity and presence are continuously reorganized.
EXHIBITIONS
Kunsthall Oslo
Art-Nordic
GamleMunch
The Holy Art Gallery
Palazzo Delle Arti Napoli
Scene360
Fiva Internacional De Videoarte
THE COLORS OF ME
Multimedia Installation, 2025
This installation combines portrait photography with symbolic materials and color. Inspired by my Indian and Tanzanian heritage and memories of the Indian Ocean, the work explores how identity is shaped through culture, memory, and personal history.
Medium:
Polaroid and digital photography with sea glass, shell, Maasai beadwork, and Indian jewelry
ME AND NORWAY
Multimedia Installation, 2025
Medium:
Slalom ski, ski boots, rehabilitation helmet, glitter
This installation reflects my experience of identity and belonging in Norway, where people are often categorized as Norwegian or not Norwegian. The phrase “Jeg er bare Marietha” (“I'm just Marietha”) written on the slalom ski expresses a desire to exist beyond these labels and simply be myself. The ski and helmet reference a traumatic accident during my first attempt at slalom skiing.
PRISM
Self-portrait Experimental video, 2015/2025
This experimental video explores how weather and mood reflect one another. By observing changing conditions—sun, clouds, blue sky, and rain—the work creates shifting prisms of color that mirror emotional states.
Medium:
Experimental digital video with body painting
THE BODY AS SURFACE
performance/photography 2015 - ongoing
Medium:
Body painting, digital photography
In this series I use the human body as a living surface for color. Through painting and photography, I explore the beauty of the body and how color can express internal emotions and sensations.
Childhood memories self-portrait, 29.7 cm x 42.0 cm
The body of Z portrait, 59,4cm x 42cm
I & The Primary Colors self-portrait, 29.7 cm x 42.0 cm
COLOR LOVE
Mixed media on paper, 2023
Medium:
Acrylic and chalk on paper
A series exploring human silhouettes drawn in chalk against colorful backgrounds. The works use simple forms and color to express mood, presence, and connection.
We, 29.7 cm x 42.0 cm
THE COLORS OF ME
Self-portrait Experimental video, 2025
Free soul, 29.7 cm x 42.0 cm
Medium:
Body painting, digital video
This experimental self-portrait explores my mixed Indian and Tanzanian heritage and memories of growing up near the Indian Ocean. Using colored glass, body painting, and symbolic gestures drawn with my fingers, the film becomes a visual reflection on identity, culture, and personal history
THE COLORS OF THE WORLD AROUND ME
Photography 2025 - ongoing
Medium:
Digital photography with colored filters
I capture moments I find beautiful and filter them through color. The colors act as a psychological filter, reflecting how I experience and process the world around me.
Joy of the sun, 14,8cm x 21cm
If Edvard Munch had a camera, 14,8cm x 21cm
Holy Christ, 14.8 cm x 21 cm
Red light district of Oslo, 14.8cm x 21cm
An Impression in Glass, 14.8cm x 21cm
Rainbow upon the sky, 14.8 cm x 21cm
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