Marina Smith
I am an artist based in London, working with photography, text, and damaged digital imagery.
About once a month, I host private evenings where I test images together with narrative, voice, and a small audience. These evenings are part of the work.
I also work with musicians, making photographs, covers, portraits, and visual material for releases and promotion.
Private evenings
The private evenings are small gatherings where I read my essays, show images, test sequences, and watch how the work changes through timing, attention, interruption, and the presence of other people.
They are part studio visit, part reading, part rehearsal, and part informal exhibition. They give the work a room before it becomes fixed in a more public form.
Works, ideas, situations
A loose map of projects, recurring terms, formats, and working territories.
Adult Entertainment Portrait Project
A fine art portrait project about adult entertainment, visibility, performance, sexuality, and the camera.
Visibility Without Knowledge
An essay on pornography, bodily visibility, portraiture, and the gap between being seen and being known.
Chaos Under Construction
Digital photography, colour collage, double exposure, optical disruption, and the unstable pleasure of an image still forming.
On Being Russian
Russia, memory, family, place, damaged attachment, moral pressure, and the difficulty of speaking from inside and outside.
No Direct Route
A catalogue and exhibition document around travel, return, Rostov, family interiors, winter routes, and the visual pressure of distance.
Glossary
Terms and working concepts: access protocol, displayability, damaged form, territory, narrative as medium, and other internal structures.
I work with musicians to make photographs, covers, portraits, and visual material for releases, promotion, performance, and online presence.
The images use damaged digital imagery, optical disruption, reflection, blur, colour shifts, and partial visibility. The image can hold the person as an artist without making them fully stable or fully explained.