Living Room
signed and dated 2008 (lower right)
oil on canvas
72” x 96” (183 cm x 244 cm)

“Living Room” is typical of Marina Cruz’ works that simulate the chaotic spaces and movement in an abandoned house. Composed in skewed perspectives that juxtapose planes seemingly helter-skelter, Living Room captures an interior space in disarray with household objects still intact but slowly surrendering to the passage of time.

The overlapping perspectives, walls, wallflowers, floors, doors, windows and ceilings in Marina Cruz’s paintings are not only metaphorical, but literal representations. Past and present are woven together in these interiors which are stacked up and transformed as a result of the heaving of the river that runs through them.

Such overlapping realities in the artist’s works verge on the dark and disturbing.