A conversation with Mariah

Multidisciplinary artist with 15+ years of experience in the fields of art. Grounded in Eastern European cultural heritage, my practice examines war, collective and cultural trauma, and power dynamics, tracing how these forces manifest in the subtle micro-narratives of personal and everyday experience.

The Diary of a Neurotic – Anatomy of a Fragmented Self

In contemporary art, some artists build worlds, while others fracture them to reveal their internal anatomy. The creator of The Diary of a Neurotic belongs to this latter, rarer lineage. Her voice emerges from a dense cultural geography, shaped by Eastern Europe and its wounded inheritances: territories marked by history, cycles of unstable power, and a collective memory that never ceases to sediment within the body and the psyche. Yet the extraordinary value of her work lies not only in the gravity of these roots, but in her ability to transform history into intimate micro-narratives. Her artworks do not depict war; they breathe its echo. They do not illustrate trauma; they reveal its most granular folds, the ones that infiltrate daily life, minor gestures, fleeting thoughts. What the artist constructs is a counter-diary of the contemporary condition: a cartography of mental fissures formed where personal experience meets the weight of historical memory.