Marla Jacarilla

About:
Marla Jacarilla (1980) was born in Alcoy, she lives and works in Barcelona. Visual artist, film critic and writer, she develops her work through techniques such as writing, performance, video and installations. She continually seeks links between plastic art, new technologies, cinema and literature to develop a fragmented and fictional narrative that the viewer is invited to recompose. In 2012 she wrote Mecánica de la desidia, her first novel. She has also developed artistic projects in Art Centers such as Glogauair (Berlin), Islington Mill (Manchester), BelgradeAir (Belgrade) or Kunststiftung Baden-Württemberg (Stuttgart).

Education:
Beetwen 2000 and 2005 she studied Fine Arts at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. In 2010 she moved to Barcelona and studied a master degree in ArtisticProductions and Research at the University of Barcelona.

Selected solo exhibitions:
2021 Truncated Archives, Twin Gallery, Madrid
2020 Ext Day. A Common Family Smiles, Reus Museum
2019 The flight of a hummingbird fans the flames of a pyre of burning frames, Sala Gòtika, Institut d’Estudis Ilerdencs, Lleida
2018 Notes on a Fugue, Centro del Carmen, Valencia
2017 Possibility and Words, Twin Gallery, Madrid
2015 Annotations for an eisegesis, Twin Gallery, Madrid
2014 (In)complete Works, Sala Muncunill, Terrassa
2013 Stage Directions Behind the Fourth Wall, La Capella, Barcelona

Date of residency: 01. 9. 2021 - 30. 11. 2021

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