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The grotesque body, writes Michael Bakhtin, ignores the smooth surface that closes off the body and delimits it as single and complete. The inside and the outside mix, the boundaries merge, and a transition from life to death, from death to life seems equally conceivable.

Marianna Ignataki's drawings and watercolors lead us into an intermediate realm, a zone of the poisoned beauty of external appearances, where a bewitching cooing resounds, where a heavy perfume befuddles the senses and where artfully liquid colors elegantly beguile us. A zone of intoxication, seduction and disturbance …