About the Artist
Marcelina Palamar is a Polish-British artist based in Germany and the UK, making figurative paintings and mixed media works that explore masking, the gaze, and unstable forms of self-representation.
Working with oil, gouache, fabric, stitching and collage, she treats the image as a surface under pressure: cut, layered, held together and made unstable. Faces and bodies appear as masks, doubles and fragments, moving between self-protection and exposure.
Her academic background in linguistics and the social sciences continues to shape her interest in how identity is constructed, read, performed and misread. For Palamar, masking is not simply a disguise placed over a stable self, but a psychological condition shaped by observation, expectation and the attempt to control how one is seen.
Material interventions extend this tension beyond the represented figure. Fabric obscures and reveals, while cuts and stitches make concealment, damage and repair physically present within the work.
Recent works move from isolated self-portraiture towards groups and repeated figures. Through proximity, duplication and returned gazes, Palamar examines how identity is performed under scrutiny and negotiated in relation to others.
Since beginning her independent artistic practice in 2026, she has developed a growing body of oil paintings, gouache works and stitched mixed media pieces, alongside essays reflecting on museums, artists, looking and incompletion.
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