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cantsleepawink ago

Here's a video from her vimeo channel entitled Bewitched https://vimeo.com/146631914

Tavistock mind control bullshit. Clearly she had a disturbed upbringing. The interview you showed with her indicates to me that she is no intellectual. That's not what her work is about. More experiential. Interesting that the art world does not delve into that. Usually any art critic worth their salt examines motivations behind an artist's work. Take the Guggenheim for example:

https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/maria-marshall

Many of Marshall’s video works have featured children in troubling adult situations. Often, their titles are derived from the utterances of her children. When I Grow Up I Want To Be a Cooker (1998) features footage of her son digitally altered so that it appears as though he is smoking. I should be older than all of you (2000) reveals a wide-eyed child lying in a box, surrounded by slithering snakes. When are we there? (2001) is a six-minute loop that winds through the corridors of a nondescript institutional building, ultimately ending up in a room in which Marshall herself stands; the camera approaches and focuses on her skin, which appears to move as though touched by phantom hands. For Puzzle Fit (2002–03), Marshall taped a group of preadolescent students, outfitted with microphones, in a disco; images of the students commingling and dancing appear with subtitles of their gossipy discussions on a four-part split screen, as 1970s dance music plays in the background. For 3 Minute Wonder, screened on London’s Channel 4 in 2006, Marshall created three films each consisting of three-minute deconstructed biographies of her son, her grandmother, and herself.

'Many of Marshall’s video works have featured children in troubling adult situations.' Interesting that the question 'Why?' is never posed. Seems to be mainly aimed at an audience with an appetite for such things.