Ms. Marmara is especially good at unearthing ‘visual gold’

(The New York Times: All Good Magazines Go To Heaven)

Wax Figurine / portrait by Nneka Uzoigwe

Alexia Marmara is a (FR-UK based) researcher, curator, archivist and artist specialising in uncovering the uncelebrated. She focuses on stories that are left untold in an effort to correct bias in narratives within the history of art and culture. She centres the humanisation of archival objects in order to speak of fragile stories. Her process defies the drawbacks in our institutionalised systems of remembering and collecting as she prioritises breathing alternatives to our silencing modes of representation within historical research.

She is the instigator of the excavation of Mexican painter Froylán Ojeda (1932-1991) whose significant career has been practically erased from contemporary discourse.  Working with oral histories and archival investigation she is the first researcher to compile a written biography of the artist’s life and œuvre.