Maddie Marone (CV)

Madeline Marone (1996, USA) is a Geneva and Naples based artist. Madeline’s understanding of human fragility is one of the unifiying foundations of her work across all media, whether it be performance, video, photography, texts or painting. Her work is composed of scores of performative action, which are ongoing responses to the queries of existence: gender politics, solidarity, and alternative choices to capitalism. Madeline’s practice thrives on essential themes: pain, pleasure, sex, food, death, and digs deeper into subjects of the intimate: identity, private spaces, and the body. Often drawing on cultural analysis, character study and auto-biography, her research questions reality, and walks the line between what is real and what is staged for performance. Madeline plays with the tangible to render it unseen and the ephemeral to make it visible. Her work tests her and the public’s capacity for adaptation and to exist in the here and now. After completing a certificate at The New School and London Contemporary Dance School, she received her BFA at La Haute Ecole de Art et Design (HEAD) in Geneva, Switzerland.

Artist Statement

My work examines memories which are denoted by physical and ephemeral traces: scars, beauty marks and tattoos on skin, peeling paint, and tarnished door handles, changing of the guards in the museum, used cigarettes in an ashtray, self-reflections, and underwear of past lovers, all of which are markers in time and leave indications of histories, allowing for an expansive unravelling of narratives and my works to be viewed as a site of permanent conference, an archive which stretches vastly into the future. My character research fluctuates between and in and out of roles: warrior, mother, goddess, shaman, wife. I examine this interplay and the traces of these roles in the human paradigm. I work with liberation and fascination in my divulgence of themes related to men, children, the kitchen and the church. The lines of daily life blur into art worlds to create multiple realities. La vie quotienne and aspects of ennui with the human condition are rendered important for the transgression of that weariness and dissatisfaction itself.