Eliot Marmureanu

a trans artist that seeks to raise awareness to the trans experience through his artistic practice

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‘’acasa este:’’/“home is:” is a figurine I made to complement my diploma project and add an interactive element to the exhibition. It was meant to be completed by the public with their own meaning of home and I was overjoyed by how many people took part in it!

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a series of two experimental pop-up books I made for my diploma project along with three interview-based figurines. The books encompass my creative process from this year, and they talk about the ways in which me and five other trans people view the idea of home.

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third and final interview based illustration. I absolutely loved making these, this one is based on a dear friend and uses the spiral as a reoccurring symbol, as it’s representative of their own artistic practice. It’s meant to represent the idea of ‘’spiraling’’ and emotional isolation.

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second interview of the series. this one has two main places this person lived in, in opposition to each other.

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started a series of interviews about how trans people relate to the idea of home. This is the first of three affective cartographies I made based on an interview I took of a good friend of mine. It talks about the three main places he lived throughout his life and how they perceived and interacted with each one.

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a pop-up book I made recently based on five interviews I took of some friends. It talks about how different trans people relate to the idea of home.

‘’O casă pentru noi’’ / ‘’A Home for Us”

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getting a lot of inspiration from the backs of my drawings lately. I often overwork the drawing, not knowing when to stop. Someone told me the front relates the action and the back relates the feeling on the work, I really like that. The back is so expressive and fresh, I started using it as a stand alone piece. I included some of these in some books I made recently.

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trying out oil pastels more, alone and mixed with coloured markers. I think the opposite textures work really well together. Also experimenting with different paper shapes, using the pre-cut paper as an experimental creative guide.

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a small experimental book I made called ‘’this house holds me like a tight fist’’. trying out different book binding methods and playing with paper shapes and sizes.

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experimenting with paper weaving. On the first one I used markers and on the second oil pastels. Love to see all of the textures coming out!

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a short animation about making a home of your body.