Marta Normington is a mixed-media artist and documentary photographer, currently based in Munich, Germany. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Multimedia Communication Department of University of Arts in Poznań, Poland, and M.Sc. in cross-cultural psychology from SWPS University, Warsaw. She also studied documentary photography at University of of South Wales, UK, and Tibetan and Mongolian studies at University of Warsaw. In 2007-2008 she spent almost a year residing in a remote Buddhist monastery in Zanskar, in the Indian Himalayas.
Marta travels extensively and slowly, both in Europe and Asia. She is interested in artistic re-interpretation of anthropological methods and practices, as well as experimental documentary forms, the relationship between image and reality, and collaborations between arts and science. She is fascinated by fluidity, transitory states, rhizomatic journeys, and crossing borders - both physical and disciplinary. She creates installations comprising photography, objects, text and video. www.martanormington.com.