Biography:
Mariana holds a master’s degree from the School Of Visual Arts in N.Y., a degree in journalism from the Carlos Septién Garcia School and has taken several workshops at Centro de la Imagen. She has had exhibitions in New York, Toronto, Amsterdam, Hong Kong and Mexico. Professor at the National School of Painting Sculpture and Engraving "La Esmeralda", she has imparted several workshops in the Center for design of cinema-television, and other cultural centers of Mexico. She was awarded the grant for Young Creators and the scholarship for Foreign Studies of the FONCA. She worked in New York for Yolanda Cuomo, Mary Lucier and Clarissa Sligh and in Mexico for Pedro Meyer. Freelance photographer since 1997 for various magazines, films and companies.
Statement:
Hidden Geographies
The operating room is like being in limbo, a space of the hospital where there is no pain. The suffering remains in the waiting rooms, the rooms of recovery and the other quarters of the hospital. The intervened body, the harmony and the light of the operating room generate beauty instead of dreadfulness and repulsion, I wanted to break that taboo. The vulnerability of the human being against life itself is a subject that always has motivated me to photograph. In this occasion I wanted to document that constant fight to eradicate pain and suffering, to capture that moment in which life and death are face to face, in a space where the horror is in the fact that forces us to arrive there and not in the operating room itself. |
