Marisa Papen (1992) is a Belgian artist, poet and naturalist. Her work moves between photography, film, performance and writing — always returning to the body as the primary site of knowing.

Over the last decade her expression has traced a single thread: the remembrance of the feminine, through the body, the voice, the cycles, the hidden. For 'Mother of God' she undressed in front of religious sites such as the Hagia Sophia, the Pyramids of Giza, the Vatican, and the Western Wall — not to provoke, but to question: who decided this structure was holy and this flesh was not? From there, the work turns inward. 'Flower of Life' enters the vagina as sacred geography, culminating in the largest portrait of female genitalia ever exhibited. 'Flow of Life'  — a multidisciplinary revelation of the inner cycles — goes deeper still. Its thirteen moon paintings, made with her menstrual blood, serve as the living installation for her short film 'Womb Space'. Together these projects are not just a body of work but a continuous initiation, each one deepening her embodiment.

In 2020 she formed the artist duo Double Being with her husband Michael Chichi. Their collaboration is a devotional act — two beings becoming one creative vessel. From this union grew Earth Family, a creative non-profit offering art and storytelling as service, weaving a new myth for humanity and the animate world.

“My intention is to open a space for raw conversation where we zoom out on strongly held beliefs and zoom in on the nature of our being.”

“I was 22 when I first undressed in front of a camera. I remember this incredible wave of freedom. It was a meditative state I had no context for at the time. My body began moving in ways it had never moved before. My mind peaceful and present. My heart opening. Something awoke in me that day.”

"My practice is an ongoing pilgrimage of finding the vulnerable places within, and breathing light into them."