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 place of knowing.

Over the last decade, her practice has traced a single current of remembrance through the body, the voice, the cycles, the hidden. For MOTHER OF GOD she undressed in front of ancient and religious sites such as the Hagia Sophia, the Pyramids of Giza, the Temple of Luxor, the Vatican and the Western Wall — not to provoke, but to question: who decided this structure is holy and this flesh is not?

FLOWER OF LIFE entered the vagina as sacred geography, culminating in the largest portrait of female genitalia ever exhibited. FLOW OF LIFE, a 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 merely a body of work but a continuous initiation, each one deepening her embodiment.

In 2020 she and her husband Michael Chichi founded the non-profit Earth Family. The initiative offers poetry and storytelling as service — weaving a new myth for humanity and the animate world. They then formed the artist duo Double Being, the vessel through which her voice now moves.