
Marjian Tsatsaros Tyagi
I am interested in interdisciplinary and embodied practices of advocacy and inclusion by exploring ways of bridging the audiences individual experiences to the constructed design of the exhibition. Through performative, expressive, and sensorial activities to create engagement and connection within arts spaces. My practice plays with ideas of participation, materiality, hospitality and intimacy for audiences, as well as practitioners, to embrace neurodiversity, embodied experience and identity.
This year I have also been exploring myth, fantasy and fiction as tools to examine or re-imagine our understanding of the world and ourselves within it. Thinking through phenomenological perception and design my work has aimed to adopt empathetic and accessible modes of curating. Weaving together the metaphor of Myth for curatorial practice which engages storytelling, immersion and gathering.
A myth can live in a moment and across time as they are both individually interpretable and societally relatable. The stories we tell through exhibitions create a cyclical impression onto culture, reshaping public and internal knowledge. The fantastical as the ability to incite imagination and the poetic as a tool of communing, understanding and discourse. To imagine alternative worlds, times, beings and systems transports audiences into works and discourses via transcendent, mystical and immersive play with the potential to undermine orthodox, hegemonic and colonial exclusionary systems.
I am currently exploring breadmaking and writing as a metaphor and activating practice into the intimate while foregrounding ecological, cultural and political discourses. Crafting the invisible and quiet stories, the emotional and intuitive knowledges created by the interaction of space, materials, ingredients and person.
Born and based in London but of mixed heritage of Canadian, Indian, Greek and Scottish, my practice often draws from my own experiences of identity, heritage neurodiversity and art practice.
Education
2021-23
MA Curating Contemporary Art
Royal College of Art
2021
The Warburg Institute
Mapping Worlds: Medieval to Modern
2017-20
BA First Class Hons Fine Art Photography
University of the Arts London
2016-17
Foundation Diploma Art and Design
University of the Arts London
Curation
2023
2021-23
2020-21
2020
2020
2019
To Be Here With You Workshop Series, Graduate Project, Southwark Park Galleries, London.
Middleground Project - Curator and co-developer.
Xhibit, Student Union University of the Arts London, Online.
What does Photography have in Common with a Fork?, APT Gallery, London.
Leave only Traces, The Copeland Gallery, London.
FutureProof, Freerange Gallery, London.
Exhibitions
2020
2020
2019
2019
2019
What does Photography have in Common with a Fork?, APT Gallery, London.
Leave only Traces, The Copeland Gallery, London.
FutureProof, Freerange gallery with Develop TGP, London.
Clash, VAVA Art Collective, South Block, Glasgow.
Merge, CGP Dilston Grove, London.