Marianna Christofides

Marianna Christofides is one of the three participants of the Onassis AiR Emergency Fellowships program for the 2019-20 season.

The program is designed as a tailor-made, time-sensitive support for artists and curators living in Greece or anywhere in the world.

Photo: Bernd Bräunlich & Marianna Christofides

Artistic Research

“How can one grasp and express the instability and fragility of our times?” Driven by a question doomed to remain largely unanswered Marianna Christofides will travel to Japan to continue her research leading to a future multi-part 16mm film installation. Under the working title 'Strung to Breaking Point' she investigates terrestrial force as a trigger for human energy. A country ceaselessly afflicted by disasters facilitates entry points to reflect on notions of uncertainty, precarity, agency and slow violence; on existential conditions that affect us all irrespective of geographies. In order to re-think the notion of energy it attends to a planetary awareness in seeing life as a systemic phenomenon.

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Photo: Bernd Bräunlich and Marianna Christofides

Mountains of radioactive soil, 12km off the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, March 2020

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Photo: Bernd Bräunlich and Marianna Christofides

March 11, 2011, tremor etching, magnitude 9.0, Tokyo, March 2020

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Photo: Bernd Bräunlich and Marianna Christofides

Earth drilling, 155-160m below the surface, Nagano Prefecture, March 2020

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Photo: Bernd Bräunlich and Marianna Christofides

Volcano observatory, Nagano Prefecture, March 2020