DOUBLE BEING is the artist duo of Marisa Papen and Michael Chichi. Their work spans photography, poetry, film, publication, design, objects and music — exploring the relationship between body, perception, nature and the mystery of existence. They have extensively visualized the current of the re-emerging feminine, with the vagina and menstruation as the embodied source.
Attuned to the psychological, archetypal and metaphysical dimensions, DOUBLE BEING dissolves the boundaries between self and other, personal and collective, visible and invisible. The vessel of this practice is their commitment in marriage, in which relational polarity, vital intimacy and sustained conversation form the continuous threshold from which creation originates. Encountering the art is not just beholding an image — memories, emotions, perceptions and beliefs are revealed, often in an instant.
EXHIBITIONS, AWARDS AND ORIGIN
2026
WOMB SPACE received multiple awards; Berlin Kiez Film Festival - Best Music Score and Big Fridge London - SemiFinalist. Screened at the Antwerp Film Festival and at the Ghent Film Week, winning Best Belgian short.
2025
Exhibited two new works in the group exhibition ‘HIGHER LOVE - The Psychedelic Roots of Modern Sexuality’ at the Museum of Sex in NYC. Their sculptural object, INFINITE UNION and the lenticular work, IF ONLY I WOULD BE A FLOWER OF LIFE. On occasion of the exhibition, they also produced and published The Infinite.
Premiered VAGUS NERVE at Annex Untitled Gallery in Taos, NM.
Currently on view.
Exhibited six works in the group show, ’No Apologies’ at Black Gallery in Antwerp.
2024
FLOW OF LIFE received awards from Tokyo International Short Film Festival & Blow Up Art House FilmFest. It was screened at the Poetic Lens film festival in Portland and Eugene, OR. The film was released publicly in November and amassed one million views within the first month.
2023
Short film, FLOW OF LIFE, won the award for best women’s short, and was selected for three other festivals.
During Art Week Miami they exhibited the debut of FLOWER OF LIFE — the largest, most intimate portrait of a vagina ever exhibited. Alongside her counterpart IF ONLY I WOULD BE A FLOWER. In addition they produced & published, THE FOLD, and hand-distributed 3,000 copies across Miami.
2022
Art directed the cover of the 50th anniversary of Playboy magazine.
IF ONLY I WOULD BE A FLOWER garnered international praise as the first vagina in history on the cover of the magazine.
Participated in the group exhibition ‘The New Ark’ in Bangkok, exhibiting the 13 moon paintings accomponied by several art prints from their body of work FLOW OF LIFE.
2021
Formed the creative vessel DOUBLE BEING.
Read more about our symbol and origin here.
Curated & commissioned 13 artists to offer their interpretation of the vagina as muse. Published the moon calendar as a series of art prints and booklet, named FLOWERS OF LIFE.
2020
Founded the non-profit EARTH FAMILY and published the book of the same name in the form of an illustrated poem.
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