New Moons

"New Moon" is born in an attempt to make the feminine resilience prevail in a sort of transmutation of resistance and perseverance for a conscious, solid, social new identity. Creating a fertile territory for the construction of a more inclusive society.

Ada Marino is an Italian visual artist based in Wales. Working at the intersection between photography and installation, her practice focuses on past events of her subjects, their memories and traumas that re-emerge and manifest as a form of cynical surrealism.

Often, her disturbing imagery attempts to conceptualise the repulsion/attraction effect in an attempt to reappraise notions of ugliness.

As a woman, mother and visual activist, Marino's practice focuses specifically on women, representing and documenting their experiences. Throughout Marino's practice, she embraces the causes, concerns and gender issues women are subjected to, and the daily stereotypes which women have to fight against, investigating socio- cultural phenomena which implicate deviant behaviours and identities structures. Marino’s works have been shown in group exhibitions including Copeland Gallery (London, 2022), TATE Modern (London 2022), Ffotogallery, (Cardiff 2022-2023) LCB Depot Film 2023 as part of FORMAT23 (Leicester 2023) SERCHIA Gallery (Bristol 2023) Liquida Photofestival (Turin 2023) selected for Sola Journal publication “And Still I Rise” (2023) nominated FRESH EYES Talents 2023 and published on Yogurt Magazine 2023. Marino was awarded the Alan Whatley Prize in 2023 and exhibited the body of work 'New Moons' at Stiwdio Griffith, Wales in 2023.