Mara Duvra

Mara Duvra is a visual artist and writer. Her research-based practice combines photography, poetry, and video to create installations that explore stillness and interiority as critical modes of self-study. Duvra’s most recent body of work Tending: meditations on interiority and blackness, uses poetic and ephemeral imagery to understand Blackness beyond resistance or public identity. Photographing landscapes, interiors, and the body, Duvra's visual practice explores shifts in proximity through moments laid bare / unfolding the vulnerability of being present / uncovering a shared intimacy.

This work is about the quiet and quotidian, the still and meditative, and considers possibilities for Black subjectivity that center tenderness. 

Duvra is originally from Maryland and received a BA in Studio Art and Psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park, and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. Duvra is a current McKnight Visual Arts Fellow and a visiting assistant professor at Macalester College.

Contact

msduvra@gmail.com