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Māra Māyā Dēvi

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Māra Māyā Dēvi is a Sydney based performance and installation artist who works within the confines of the feminine and the monstrous and the brown and the body and the buddha and the blasphemer and the re-borne.

Their work looks at the organisation of mess and the filtering of soot, the face revealed and painted in clay and wood, and light and shadow.

White background darkened on one side. Close-up of a brown body, shoulders to head. Bald Brown Face, gilded in dollar shop gold paint. Black lips. Dark eyes.

Māra Māyā Dēvi; Credit: courtesy of the artist

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