Maria Marshall is an English/Swiss artist (born 1966, India). In the late 1990s, she became known for her video work, working mostly with children. Her recent works include "Thought", an alter ego character who can infiltrate the mind and replace thoughts. Based on meditation, this is a multimedia work which includes video, photography, painting and sculpture. Biography Maria Marshall was born in Bombay. Today, she lives and works in Berlin. A dual Swiss and British citizen, she holds a degree in sculpture from the Wimbledon College of Arts in London. She has also studied at the Chelsea College of Arts in London and the Geneva School of Fine Arts. Work Art The general atmosphere of her films is dreamlike and agonizing. She takes on moral and psychological issues, using digital illusions and creates pieces that, projected as installations, are striking for the spectator's mind. The intention, she says, is not to shock, but to provoke the viewer through a seductive image, to ask themselves what makes them feel uncomfortable. Her films often revolve around the world of childhood, projecting adult concerns. She stages them in situations that make the adult viewer uncomfortable. Innocence itself becomes ambiguous. It perverts these "taboo" subjects, childhood, innocence, oscillating between good and evil, between sacred and profane. Children or adolescents are always threatened, confronted with evil, alone in the face of danger. This reflects the anguish of a mother for her children. Her videos, she says, include her paranoia as a mother 2,3,4. These works continue to be shown internationally, including at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. With the spread of the Internet and increased freedom of speech in the US, her work has been appropriated by fake news Trolls who use the work to sensationalize their YouTube videos. Marshall has recently created an Alter Ego superhero character "Thought" she uses to investigate. Her emotionally charged films eradicate war, by erasing thought, silencing "Thought", investigating meditative spaces, such as the Everest series. "Thought" dances at a Mount Everest base camp—a freedom dance, Sufi whirling all around the world and painting the noise around the mind as in Stille and Flak shown at Art Loft Berlin, Werkhalle Wiesenburg, Berlin. In Hair Sweet Hair, a site specific exhibition on the implication of hair on "Thought" includes paintings, sculptures and photography. The roles in her films are mostly played by her own children, which adds