My Uncle Juan, 1986 (tree trunk, 120 * 80 * 60 cm)

Text: Ruthi Hinsky Amitay​

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In 1986, Marion was invited to participate in a tribute exhibition for Joseph Beuys at the University of Visual Arts in Caracas, Venezuela. In this work, she sawed a tree trunk brought from the Venezuelan jungle and inserted red-painted sponge strips between the two parts of the tree. Then she closed the tree trunk and wrapped it with a rope used in ships, which made it look as though twisted, compressed, bloody faces were sliding out of it. The violent, blatant act also involved wounding the outer bark, in order to create a channel into which the rope was inserted.