"DAMES" Daria Marchik Exhibition Moscow House of Photography Museum

Дарья Марчик • "DAMES" | "ДАМЭЗ"

"Marchik portrays the embellished Utopia of Mischievous creatures molding Berlin's Grotesque Burlesque. Metro-Mermaids ® Embodying the sins of Pride, Vanity & Lust. Illustrious DAMsels in Distress."

The DAMed ® * Photography & Performance Art Installation 

Московский Дом фотографии | Moscow House of Photography Museum | Multimedia Art Museum

• International Festival "Fashion & Style in Photography" | curator Ekaterina Kondranina

Opening: March 21, 2011 • 19.00
Exhibition: March 21 - April 21 • 2011
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Daria Marchik features in her Berlin based series “Dames” local performance artists in the art Neo-Burlesque. Marchik, however is not a documenter she is the stage designer and the director in the performance. Though based on the traditional Burlesque art, the new form encompasses a wider range of performance styles; Neo-burlesque acts can be anything from classic striptease
to modern dance to theatrical mini-dramas to comedic mayhem. As with the earlier burlesque, neo-burlesque is more focused on the "tease" in "striptease" than the "strip". Audiences for neo-burlesque shows tend to be mixed gender, age, race, and class. Daria directs the actors to catch the images expressing her idea of the current Berlin Burlesque Zeitgeist. The reminiscence to the imagery, the coloring even, of the New York flamboyant
artistic scene on the peak of the liberal movement is obvious. Berlin as New York in the 80s has evolved into a global focal point for young individuals and artists attracted by a liberal lifestyle and modern zeitgeist. Also, it draws back to Marchik’s upbringing in an artistic household in the big apple. For Marchik Burlesque does not end in the performance act it transgresses
music, performance art and film. The artist has an interest in sub-cultural groups and individuals on the margins of society, where the artist reveals a remarkable capacity to provide an empathetic glimpse into semi-private worlds through intimate depictions of people and herself as model and their surroundings.
- Christina Steinbrecher
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DARIA MARCHIK • VISA®T • FOTOGRAFIE

About the Artist:

Daria Marchik is a visual artist, photographer, art director and creator of ambiguous art forms with a focus in eccentric fashion and nonconformists and performance art in the underground of Berlin and other main stations of Europe.


In July 2010, her first solo exhibition in Moscow , ® "BERLOPIA" opened in Gallery Art+Art, featuring works from the 'BURLESQUE ART' a varied series, curated by Christina Steinbrecher.
“A color story expands with feminine subjects portrayed through a  metamorphosis where forbidden fruit & taboo are gestures of the inanimate stills.”

February 2010 'DAMES' Berlin exposed at the Lucas Carrieri Art Gallery, a photography & performance art installation exposition in homage to Burlesque performance artists of Berlin.

"DAMES" represent role play and female ambivalence. In the world of Burlesque,
this free form of seduction which is portrayed in the series of portraits.


"Daria Makes subjective, individual experience of
performance and revetment the focus of her artistic interests early in
her work.  Referencing the body, design and posture gain a newly defined
 presence that, in combination with aggressive sexuality slide the
boarder of an overacted advertisement. In the new Series she developed a
 specific kind of pop art iconography by combining dramatic female
character and oversized products.  The heroines are presented as powerful protagonists alluring to their inherent power."
- Christina Steinbrecher

PERFORMERS:
Clea Cutthroat [GROTESQUE GALA, BERLIN]*
Mad Kate [ALFABUS, BUILT FOR SPEED, BERLIN]*
Ginger Synne [SYNDESTRIES, BERLIN]*
Tallulah Freeway

April 2010 her series “FEMME NOIR” was presented in “WIDOW”, a collaborative  exhibition in Bartbarian Art Gallery, Zürich. The "Femme Fatale" exhibition in honor of Female Ambivalence.


In 2009, Marchik exhibited for the first time in Russia with 'Double Identity', a Photography and street Art exposition at Gallery Fotowall Etagi in St. Petersburg. Daria Marchik contributed to platforms of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the New York Chelsea Museum, State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Gogol Festival in Kiev, amongst many others.