The ogress is a shape-shifter. A devourer. She entices, lures, and captures. In fairy tales and folklore, the ogress is a voracious monster who deceives men and torments children in her quest to ravish them whole. Marianna Simnett wields the ogress’ insatiable hunger as a radical force that allows for a porosity with other beings and technologies.
In You (2022), a figure crouches over a large lightbox scanner, in thrall to their own continuously generated image like a techno-narcissus. The work refers to the Greek myth of Athena to delve into our innate drive towards collection and collectivity.
