Ada Marino is an Italian visual artist based in Wales. Working at the intersection between photography and installation, her practice focuses on past events of her subjects, their memories and traumas that re-emerge and manifest as a form of cynical surrealism. Often, her disturbing imagery attempts to conceptualise the repulsion/attraction effect in an attempt to reappraise notions of ugliness.

As a woman, mother and visual activist, Marino's practice focuses specifically on women, representing and documenting their experiences. Throughout Marino's practice, she embraces the causes, concerns and gender issues women are subjected to, and the daily stereotypes which women have to fight against, investigating socio- cultural phenomena which implicate deviant behaviours and identities structures, celebrating complexity, power, resilience and beauty in the truth and imperfections of life fragments.