Marina Daiez (Buenos Aires, 1992) has developed a multidisciplinary practice that includes installations, sculptures, paintings and performances. She has also been working in the interaction between art and health-care since very young, though workshops taught at hospitals.
Her compelling pictorial works explore fantastic and parallel worlds, using anthropomorphic characters she references relationships, care, affections, fears and auto-biographical situations, in order to think collectively how to social transformations can be made departing from the personal. In her paintings the boundary between human, insect or flower is blurred. She often shows her paintings along with interactive soft sculptures meant to be used by the visitors. She thinks of art as a way to develop knowledge and particularly to affect the body, trying to reconstruct and question our emotions politically. For example, she is currently investigating the therapeutic possibilities of flowers and natural environments in relation to painting, incorporating her findings within the environment of community therapies.
She has a B.A. in Visual Arts with a specialization in Painting from the Universidad del Museo Social Argentino.(2015). She participated in the Centro de Interferencias Artísticas program in charge of Roberto Jacoby(2016) and the Artistas x Artistas Program, directed by Florencia Rodriguez Giles and Tomás Espina (2019). In 2022 she received the Stimulus Award given by Fundación Cazadores. She was also selected for the Central Bank Painting Award, The Klemm Foundation Prize in 2021 and the 8M Prize at the CCK, Buenos Aires. Daiez obtained a disntiction in the Andreani Award 2021 and won the Young Kemble Scholarship Award, 2019. She exhibited individually at Fundación Cazadores (2022), Biquini Wax (2018 Mexico), in the National Art Biennial of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Bahía Blanca (2017).
She participated in numerous group shows including at Museo Castagnino MACRO (2022); Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (2022); PROA 21 (2019) and National Endowment for the Arts.