Mara Heuer is an artist based in Halle/Saale. She loves to explore different visual universes of cartoon characters, toys, and other figures from pop cultures of the past. Thematically, she often returns back to the 1980s and 1990s, when she was a small child. In numerous series, she translates the toy worlds into her own and deals with topics such as remembering, processing emotions, and collecting. Her work often contains aspects of self irony, vulnerability and rebellion. Her influences range from 90s cartoons and film aesthetics to outsider art, DIY punk, graffiti & tattoo subculture.
(Photo by Raiko Sanchez)