In southern Sicily, where landscape intertwines with memory, Tamara Marino’s research takes shape as an inquiry into the structures that regulate collective life: power, belonging, responsibility, and the construction of identity. Her work emerges from a direct engagement with context, addressing the social and symbolic complexity of the territory through traces, silences, and everyday conditions, transforming observation into critical language.

Rather than representing the South, Tamara approaches it as a mental and cultural field. Sicily becomes both geography and metaphor, a site where historical tensions persist and are continuously rearticulated. Her practice unfolds through installation, sculpture, and video, bringing body, matter, and environment into relation, and constructing a poetics grounded in responsibility and attention to marginal conditions.

In recent years, her individual research has been accompanied by a shared practice with Simon Troger, with whom she develops site-specific installations. This perspective informs works such as La mafia si può vincere (2024), developed during a residency at Farm Cultural Park in Favara, and presented at Art Rotterdam 2026 within the Unseen Encounters section, curated by Domenico De Chirico, with Lo Magno Contemporary Art Gallery.