Fungai Marima’s work is influenced by ideas around the Body as Archive, the materiality of the body and its relationship to archiving.

Her work is often self-reflective, looking into themes of displacement, memory, identity, trauma and the female body. Marima uses methodologies within printmaking to assist in her production of artwork, in relation to thinking through making, the performance of process, object making and the archive. Experimenting with printmaking, performance, sculpture and sound, she physically uses the body to highlight and expose personal and collective narratives of the human experience that are often silenced or ignored within contemporary culture.

Marima’s on-going series, Body, is a collection of dry points that zoom in on the threshold of the human body – the skin, through body scans and tracing. The boundary within Marima’s work explores the relationship the body has to various surfaces of the mind and it’s physicality to understand the environments we encounter and how that shapes how we view and tell our own stories.

Marima graduated from Camberwell College of Art in 2020 with a MA in Fine Art Printmaking. She has exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery, Ruth Bouchard Prize exhibition and Woolwich Contemporary Fair online edition 2020.