bio + statement
Marzia Matarese (Naples, 1989) is a visual artist, mycophile, and micro-landscapist. They draw on disordered methodologies and speculative fiction to materialize works in diverse media: video, photography, installation, performance, and cultivation mediums. As part of Arquea Colectivo, they explore hybrid formats that combine experimental video, micro-landscaping, and expanded cinema.
Their work examines the intricate relationships between the organic, inorganic, and artificial realms, aiming to configure a speculative cosmo-technics and design embodied strategies that deviate from human exceptionalism, making space for post-natural, queer, and more-than-human ecologies. In this process, they appeal to the construction of an expanded kinship in which other biological beings and geological entities participate. They are interested in analyzing the transformative capacity of languages as tools for creating worlds, weaving bonds, and dismantling power structures.
Through their work, they seek to materialize strategies for inhabiting the limits of these languages: their cracks, inconsistencies, failures, and frictions. Their research interrogates the concepts of transformation and affect, inviting a reconsideration of our relationship with the ecosystems we inhabit. They examine the interactions between organisms and environments, creating narratives that challenge the normative structures which seek to determine our ecological and existential realities.
They have presented their work in international exhibitions such as In/Visible Signals: Cold Fire at Rad Myco7, Mulino, Oregon (09/24); Nakusaka, la dueña del barro at the Weilbauer/PUCE Museum, Quito (09/23); and, with Arquea Colectivo, Diálogos Cuerpo-Hábitat at the Reinventer son monde festival in Orleans, France (10/23). In 2022, they participated in the exhibition La tradició que ens travessa at Arts Santa Mònica, Barcelona, with the project Membranas Zombies (alongside the collective Muaj!).
Their performances with Arquea Colectivo have been featured at notable events, including the Eufònic Festival (Ebro Delta, 2021), Entropía (Etopia, 2022), Rarefacció (Hangar, 2022), L’Alternativa Festival (CCCB, 2022), the ECOSS Festival "Ecosistemes de l’Inesperat" (Fabra i Coats, 2023), and Semillero contra el Apocalipsis (CaixaForum, 2023).
In 2020, they participated in the creation of eemeemee (Mutant Mycopirate Enclave), a network dedicated to the exchange of processes and knowledge around DIWO (Do It With Others) mycology.
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Residencies:
04-07/25 – Calafou, Spain
12/24 – Fem_Lab residence at Mz* Baltazar’s Lab, Vienna
11/24 – FIAV, Festival International d’Art Video de Casablanca, Morocco
09/23 – NoLugar, Quito, Ecuador
08/23 – Ripanu Residency in Sápara territory, Ecuadorian Amazon, Ecuador
07/23 – Lo Mon Contemporáneo, Valle de Hecho, Diputación de Huesca, Spain
09-10/22 – Hedy Lamarr Residency in Etopia, Zaragoza Center for Art and Technology, Spain
05/22 – Entropía Residency in Etopia, Zaragoza Center for Art and Technology, Spain (Arquea Colectivo)
08/21 – Eufònic Residency in Lo Pati, Centre d’art Terres de l’ebre, Spain (Arquea Colectivo)
Exhibitions:
09/24 – In/Visible Signals: Cold Fire - Rad Myco7 – Mulino, Oregon (USA)
09/23 – Nakusaka, la dueña del barro – Weilbauer Museum/PUCE (Quito) – with the project Entrega: Microlandscapes of Nakusaka.
09/23 – Diálogos Cuerpo-Hábitat – exhibition curated by Anaís Cordova Páez within the festival Reinventer son monde – Orleans, France – with the project Ausidir Pa Amanezer Mon(struosamén) (Arquea Colectivo)
02/22 - La tradició que ens travessa – Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona) – with the project Membranas Zombies (Muaj! With Desirée Quevedo and Sonia G. Villar)
Performances:
06/12/2024 – Metabolic Affair : Re-rooted Bodies, MZ*Baltazar Lab (Vienna, Austria)
28/11/2024 – Arquea Colectivo – يتسارا (yetsara), Festival International d’Art Video de Casablanca (Casablanca, Morocco)
16/11/23 – Arquea Colectivo – Semillero contra el apocalipsis, CaixaForum (Barcelona)
02/11/23 – Arquea Colectivo – Ecoss Festival, Ecosistemes de l’Inesperat – Fabra i Coats (Barcelona)
05/08/23 – Arquea Colectivo – Ausidir Pa Amanezer Mon(struosamén), Lo Mon Contemporáneo (Hecho)
21/05/23 – Arquea Colectivo – Festa (Des)comunal – La Caldera in collaboration with Festival L’Alternativa (Barcelona)
01/04/23 – Arquea Colectivo – Dinamo Espai 10th Anniversary (Barcelona)
21/11/22 – Arquea Colectivo – L’Alternativa Festival Expanded Cinema section (CCCB, Barcelona) 20/05/22 – Arquea Colectivo – Rarefacció (Hangar, Barcelona)
19/05/22 – Arquea Colectivo, collaboration with kyoka – Entropía Cycle (Etopia, Zaragoza Center for Art and Technology)
22/04/22 – Arquea Colectivo – Subradio (Barcelona)
22/03/22 – Arquea Colectivo – Teoría de la Incertidumbre – La Cinètika (Barcelona)
02/10/21 – Arquea Colectivo – Modular Day 8 (Hangar, Barcelona)
27/08/21 – Arquea Colectivo - Eufònic Festival (Delta del Ebro)
14/04/21 – The Hole with Kenneth Dow: Esther Dow (Barcelona)
Talks:
22/10/25 – Metabolic Affair: Cuerpos Re-enraizados, Paratext n. 85, Hangar (Barcelona, Spain)
27/12/24 – Rencontre et débats autour de démarche artistique, Festival International d’Art Video de Casablanca, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Casablanca, Morocco
14/12/23 – Reverberacions, EMAV – Escola de Mitjans Audiovisuals, Barcelona (Presentation and performance by Arquea Colectivo)
21/10/23 - Simbiosis y Cosmotecnicas: de sentipensares colectivos a procesos interespecies en prácticas artísticas más allá de lo humano , Spacio Cultural, Quito, Ecuador
05/04/23 – Exploring the Intersection of Sound, Art and Nature, Mostra’m, Mostra Festival, Barcelona (Arquea Colectivo)
Workshops:
December 2023, January and February 2024 – with Chaos Fungorum (eemeemee network) MYWO theoretical-practical workshop of radical and experimental mycology – Salamina (Hospitalet del Llobregat)
July 2023 – with Arquea Colectivo Microderive Workshop in Lo Mon Contemporáneo – Hecho (Huesca)
October 2022 – Break the petri – Hypha Spread – Etopia (Zaragoza)
September 2022 – with Arquea Colectivo Microderive workshop in Paral·lel Festival
August 2022 - Break the petri – Hypha Spread - THF22 (Calafou)
February 2022 - with Arquea Colectivo Microderive in the Telaraña cycle at CentroCentro (Madrid)
November 2021 - with Arquea Colectivo Microderive in Arropaineko Arragua (Lekeitio)
October 2021 – with Chaos Fungorum (eemeemee network) MYWO theoretical-practical workshop of radical and experimental mycology – Ursulab AntrePeaux (Bourges, France)
In 2019, she organized, in collaboration with PUAJ! (Collettivo Du-da), three thematic sessions on fermentation, mycology, and spirulina in the wetlab of Hangar (Barcelona).
Education:
2024 – 2025 – Màster en Estudios Culturales y Artes Visuales (Perspectivas Feministas i
Queer) – Universitat Miguel Hernández, Altea, Comunitat Valenciana
2012 – 2015 – Grado en Comunicación e Indústrias Culturales, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona