I want, want, want… Longing as a journey

40 x 30 cm
Oil and pastel on canvas
2024
I took odd jobs, wherever I happened to be

40 x 30 cm
Oil on canvas
2024  

Pulse of the city, running through the night

40 x 30 cm
Oil and pastel on canvas
2024
From one exterior to another, drifting, they feel interior

40 x 30 cm
Oil on canvas
2024 










Bloodline

110 x 300 cm
Oil on canvas
2024
Suggestive signs continued, on a gracious memory of land

130 x 110cm
Oil on canvas
2024
Favourite ride

130 x 110 cm
Oil on canvas
2024
Escalator somewhere in Italy

150 x 155 cm
Acrylic and oil on canvas
2024

View from nowhere

86.5 x 66 cm
Oil on canvas
2024   
Lucky (indefinite leave to remain)

51 x 40 cm
Oil on canvas
2024
Eurostar 2024

76 x 66 cm
Oil on canvas
2024
When my heart feels heavy, you make it light

110 x 300 cm
Acrylic, pastel, safety pins and oil on canvas
2023








Marsi Rex


I was in a taxi the other day and the driver asked me “Where are you from?”. Everywhere I go people ask, “Where are you from?” I always wonder why people ask, because for me, even though I was born in Kosovo,  raised in London and  lived in Berlin for a number of years. I don’t know how to answer that question because how can I know where I am from? Where is it I am from when I feel like I am constantly longing for home? My practice uses painting as a medium to question, can the journey itself be home?

mail: marsirex@gmail.com

Education

2019, BA Hons in Criticism Communication and Curation, Central St Martins, London, UK

2024, BA Hons in Fine Art, Slade School of Art, London, UK



Two Person & Solo Shows

2024, Modern Boys and Mobile Girls, Hardboiled, Chicago, USA

2024, AKA Home or wherever, Slade School of Art, London, UK

2023, Mood Swings, Hackney Gallery, London, UK

2020, Misfortunes of the Immortals, Medium P, Frankfurt, DE
Group Shows

2024, Blood, Safehouse, London, UK

2023, 1001 Nachts, Amp Gallery, London, UK