Questioning the use of the medium itself, she searches for the unexpected and the otherworldly rather than capturing the expected or everyday aspects of existence. Working sometimes in black-and-white, and sometimes in color, the artist’s high contrast abstract imagery immediately poses the question of origin: where did this image begin? As a result of her inventive process, Marlen Peix creates photographs that are undeniably depictions of the real, but exceed the viewer’s expectations of what that can mean.