Marina Arias Argentina, b. 1987

Marina Arias grew up in Salta, a mountain city at the edge of the Andes, and that landscape still sits quietly at the centre of her work. From an early age, she formed a close bond with the Atacama Puna, a vast high-altitude plateau whose dry soils, volcanic stones, and open horizons continue to shape both her imagery and palette. These environments, spare and powerful, feed directly into her practice, which moves between abstracted landscapes and more focused studies of minerals, rock formations, and geological structures. Rather than depicting nature literally, Marina translates it into atmosphere and feeling, creating works that invite a slower, more reflective way of looking.

Alongside this connection to place, her background in interior and furniture design has influenced how she approaches composition and space. She thinks carefully about how a work lives in a room, how it’s perceived, and how it carries emotion beyond the surface. Since relocating to Barcelona in 2022, Marina has continued to develop this dialogue between nature and urban life, allowing the contrasts of her new surroundings to subtly enter the work.

Today, Marina’s work sits somewhere between memory and material. Each piece carries traces of distant landscapes while responding to the spaces it inhabits, inviting the viewer to slow down and engage with texture, light, and quiet emotion. Her paintings don’t ask to be read quickly. They ask to be lived with, offering a gentle reminder of nature’s presence and the fragile balance that connects us to it.