Mari Wrobi

Nonbinary
They/Them/Theirs

Mari Wrobi is a queer, transgender and intersex person of color born and raised in Sacramento, California. They currently work at the first and only shelter for LGBTQ youth experiencing homelessness in Sacramento; intern at the Gender Health Center; and advocate with interACT: Advocates for Intersex Youth. Outside of their advocacy, Mari is also a short-film director, a photographer, and a spoken word artist – with most of their art centering the LGBTQ experience.

https://mariwrobi.myportfolio.com/
Instagram: @genderfenderbender
Twitter: @intersExist

Artwork

A wide shot photo of an empty parking lot. In the distance, there is a bed in one of the parking spaces with a person sleeping in it.

A close up photo of a bed in an empty parking lot. There is a person sleeping in the bed. The photo is looking at the foot of the bed.

A close up photo of a person sleeping in a bed which is sitting in the middle of an empty parking lot.

“Stalled” by Mari Wrobi

Set of three pieces, unframed.

19.5 x 13 inch (h x w)
Photography on Paper

Artist Statement:

As a visual artist, I often turn to photography as a means to express my identity and my history. My piece for the Gender Unbound Visual Showcase 2020 is three photographs that describe my “home”. When I think about what “home” means to me, it’s impossible to forget the time when everything I owned was stored in a car that was permanently parked on my college campus. For nearly two years, a concrete parking garage was what I considered my home.

I was kicked out of my mom’s house at twenty years old – and although it never truly felt like a home to me, it was the only place that I ever had to turn to. Though she and I eventually worked through our problems and became cordial with each other, this event permanently shifted my perception of “home”. Even now, with a bed and an apartment to come home to at the end of the day, I think of myself as not having a home. I constantly feel like there’s no place where I belong. Most people can turn to their family for support or the house they grew up in for comfort. For me, home is only what I can carry from place to place – and I’m worried that’s all it will ever be to me. Still, I hold space and softness in my heart for the home I was forced to create when I had nowhere else to turn.

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$450.00

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