Marina Faust's collages are portraits of women and men, an exhortation to produce "beings" without complying to conventional criteria of stereotypical beauty. Faust gives them a completely different treatment, tearing those portraits, not respecting the conventions of their completeness with facial elements to be stuck on, tearing again, altering the backgrounds, photographing the results and then tearing again, involving herself in as many operations as are necessary to keep the idea of a "perfect being" at bay.* at Xippa Gallery.