‘It’s Time the Old Rulebook Was Rewritten’: Artist Marianna Simnett on the Virtues of Shocking Imagery and Difficult Art
Simnett says artists need to stick to their guns and insist on radicality.
Worst Gift (video still, 2017). Courtesy the artist and Matt s Gallery.
Five years ago, Marianna Simnett was sitting in a doctor’s office with a syringe an inch away from her throat. A surgeon was about to insert a dose of Botox into her neck to lower her voice a painful procedure, she told me in her Berlin studio last month, that would affect her speech for about three months as part of an artwork titled