Roberta Marrero. Yo soy la navaja y la herida

Exhibition at the Museo del Romanticismo in Madrid tracing the multidisciplinary career of Roberta Marrero, a Canarian artist who combines the Romantic spirit with contemporary popular culture.

The exhibition brings together the work of Roberta Marrero across several disciplines: poetry, collage, graphic novel and also her period as a DJ, which is present along the route. The display sets up a dialogue between Romantic sensibility and the languages of today's popular culture.

Among her references are classic authors such as Baudelaire and Rimbaud, alongside figures from music and marginal literature such as Patti Smith, Lana del Rey, Alejandra Pizarnik, Jean Genet and the aesthetic of Tom of Finland. On this basis, her pieces draw on her own biography, her travesti experience and queer identity, and question social norms and canons of beauty.

The exhibition shows how the artist transformed difference and personal wound into a field of artistic resistance against the pressures of her surroundings. In this way, it connects the decadent symbolism of the nineteenth century with contemporary claims.