This present day: We are the continuation of the thought coming from thousand or even millions of years ago. We are the seekers of truth. We are today's contemporary and universal defenders of balance against lives with fears. We speak in everybody's name.

In the light of the Amos, we have become the keepers of the chain and the ambassadors of beauties bubbling from within.   Turn Amos* whirl! Keep the flow of the common spring. Would you like to turn around the purple sunset? Daddy don't leave me! I have lived before. Amos: Hairy living creature with an uncertain nature. Could be human as it could belong to the animal world. They could also be sweet demons. The Amos are tired of the heavy load of humanity. Marya drags the Amos and their stuff around in her life everywhere. They are becoming too heavy for her. She is also tired, that's why she would like them to stand on their own.

Seekers of Truth
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Pull Christian, Pull Pull!
2005 public performance FILOPHILO (Como, Italy)

Pull Christian, Pull Pull!


The Amos Christian pulled the stuffed hairy Closet filled with tentacles and organic masses. The closet rolled on wheels. Amos* Andrea was helping as he was rolling on his skates. He carried Marya's luggage on his back. The luggage had many pouches. Each pouch contained memories, shadows, growths, long hair, short hair, ingrown hair...

The sound of the wheels was like the sound of a wheeled cart drawn by an animal in Como's medieval streets. Marya walked and lead the way with the hope that this time the Amos and their objects will confront and face their own reality. She thought that by dragging them out in the crowds they would acquire self-confidence.

Marya defended them from the people who stared at them, who yelled at them telling them that they were ugly. They were defenceless. Marya defied the crowds.

Personal Living Space
2005, installation, 51st Venice Biennale (Venice, Italy)

Personal Living Space


Oscillating between soft, subtle mindscapes and densely littered violent undertones the artist seeks mental clarity. Championing a similar mandate as in the heyday of modern contemporary art "We take a fresh look at things familiar to us, yet uprooted from their ordinary context and reflect upon the contemporary existence."

Marya Kazoun's objects always have something surprising about them, whether it is size, material, or texture. Her pieces made of everyday readily available objects that are sewn and pieced together slowly and always by hand to create bulbous organ-like shapes and nightmarish landscapes.

It's Me, It's OK
2004 archival digital prints, edition of 3, 8x10" (11 images in series)

Have you heard about 'extra human beings'?   I just have to be ready and the men will look at me.   They will read my eyes and read about my passions and my sorrows, they will see the unsealing scars. They will ask and I might speak.   I am drowning but I am still alive!   Alternately still then moving in a turbulent manner.

I am a modern 'Queen' of sorts.   I sit on my throne and eunuch, fan bearers provide cool air for me to breathe, air cooled by their tall feathers.   Their constant repetitive movements sink me into a languorous trans state and have many times.   The heat becomes bearable.   I can create anything in my mind.   I can tell you a story a night.   I can tell you intricate weavings of different cultures.   I will weave for you, if you let me.  

Do you long for the warmth of my words reader?   I am and I will speak on behalf of all of the guilty, the unfortunate, the miserable, the oppressed, the tired, the needy, the hungry, the lonely the sad, the cold, the beggars, the fighters, the strong, the mighty and the courageous.   I carry their load on my shoulders.   I will confront You-me one day, and you will have to look, to listen reader.   My name is Marya