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Angela Marino is from Hamilton, Ontario and received her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art and Art History at McMaster University. She also has a Bachelor of Education from Brock University and is currently teaching Visual Arts within Hamilton. Angela is a recent graduate from the University of Alberta with a Masters of Fine Art in Painting. Working predominantly in acrylics with mix media elements, Angela is primarily interested in exploring the way disease affects the mentality and temporality of the body, considering the impact it has on both the able and disabled body. In particular, Angela investigates her relationship with her mother Kim, whom has recently passed, unveiling the unsettling truths of what living with someone who was restricted by disease became.
Artist statement
Since the passing of my mother in 2019, I've been moving in and out of opposites. Deconstructing and reconstructing life and death as composites; I've been questioning the existence of her and dealing with the impact of life without her. Dedicating my practice to analyzing disease and its temporality, my work is about the flesh and remembrance.
Diagnosed in 2009 with Multiple Sclerosis, my mother’s mental and physical health deteriorated at a rapid pace. The person who raised me was altered, becoming someone who was less confident in her abilities and saw her disease as a defeat. I grew to resent this new person, seeing her as the other; as someone who is no longer what she once was. The fear of losing yourself, of becoming another, or of being destroyed by the other is present within my work. We experience anxiety in the face of something uncertain and indefinite, but in spite of this, I choose to speak about the effects this disease has had on my mother, family and self. By combining methods of collage and painting, I attempt to create a visual correlation of my mother’s physical and mental states with my own experience of the disease.