Matérialistes

Marina Mankarios

Sculptor

Marina Mankarios, a Franco-Egyptian artist born in France in 1996, lives and worksin Paris. A graduate of ENSAAMA Olivier de Serres in art and design, her workdelves into the themes of memory and forgetting, exploring our relationship withtime through the manipulation of ancient fragments. Using statuary castingtechniques, she reimagines Greco-Roman forms, creating deformed, hollow, andunbalanced sculptures. Through her manipulation of materials, Mankarios seeks toillustrate the concept of oblivion—what is missing, what has vanished from history.

Her work embraces these imperfections, embedding them in a fragilecontemporary context to question the future of our civilization and the legacy weleave behind. What will remain of us? Mankarios’exploration extends to a broaderreflection on society’s overproduction and its inability to process the resultingwaste. How does time decide what is preserved and what becomes obsolete?

Mankarios experiments with molding, collage, and deformation techniques,borrowing from the visual language of the absurd. Her creations often feel likemoments frozen in time, suspended just before an inevitable fall—capturing thefragile balance between preservation and loss.