ABOUT
• Visual Artist, Photographer, Art Director & Creator of Ambiguous Art Forms with a focus on Eccentric Nonconformity.
Having evolved in NY for the most part, her look on culture and it's inhabitants tends to shift the dualistic view of societies' standards.
Inspired by Berlin's Grotesque Burlesque, GLAM DAM extracts colour & form, glorifying Role Play, Female Ambivalence, Escapism & Retro-Romanticism.
Key Shows • March 2011 Moscow House of Photography Museum Art Museum ipresented the "DAMES' - Photography & Performance Art Installation.
Criticts
Widely associated with performance in embezzling elements of popart & modern-day utopia, she works with a range of media including photography direction & staged costume.
"Marchik portrays the embellished Utopia of Mischievous creatures molding Berlin's Grotesque Burlesque."
"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."
"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, Vienna Fair
Key Shows 2010 *
In July 2010, her first solo exhibition in Moscow , "BERLOPIA" opened in Gallery Art+Art.
A color story expands with feminine subjects portrayed through a metamorphosis where forbidden fruit & taboo are gestures of the inanimate stills.
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.
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.
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 festivals among which took place in Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the New York Chelsea Museum, State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, amongst many others.