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Referencing Chinese philosophy and tradition, bearded ladies and hairmen, the circus and the opera, Marianna Ignataki's exhibition deals with issues of gender, identity, exclusion and otherness, and concepts such as beauty and the grotesque that persistently appear in her work the last few years.
Her figures appear both dominant and dominating, with no signs of vulnerability, hiding or revealing themselves behind masks or hair, at the same time when ideas of the terrible and the absurd are constantly juxtaposed between alternation and coexistence. This is a world where “being …