Marlene Marino (Virginia, United States) studied art and philosophy in New York before launching her photographic practice in 1999. Her first exhibition was at American Fine Arts, NY – under the curatorship of Colin De Land. Marino published the project Cuba 2009 as a 64 page supplement to the French publication Purple Magazine. Images from Marino's Cuba 2009 series chronicle five weeks in the summer of 2008 that the photographer spent living and working in Havana. In capturing private moments and poetic scenes of her family's homeland the photographs offer a personal view that is the result of Marino's desire to connect to the country of her ancestry, and to reflect as clearly as possible what Cuba means to her, and what she is in Cuba today.
“2008. I spent five weeks in Havana last summer. I wanted to preserve on film a sense of people’s lives in this historical period of transition. I wanted the images to serve as a time capsule for an unforeseen future. I wanted to photograph everything that struck me- women’s faces, couples kissing and making love, and people passionately discussing politics amongst collapsing Neoclassic architecture to the sound of Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody. I wanted to retrace steps and make images that were musical and kinetic…”
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Marino is currently working on a book of her work with the art book publisher Rizzoli.
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Selected Two-Person Exhibitions:
Daughters of the Lonseome Isle, Sprout Curation, Tokyo, 2011
Selected Group Exhibitions:
What's Next? The Future Of The Photography Museum, Foam, Amsterdam, 2011
Beyond The Border, Gallery 21, Tokyo, 2011
All content © 2011 Marlene Marino