Artist Statement
Mariela Sancari is an argentinian photographer living in Mexico City for 16 years.
She examines personal relationships related to memory and the thin and elusive line dividing memories and fiction. Having a twin sister is determinant in her vision and way of experiencing the world. That is why she is interested in the notion of otherness and uses fiction as her primary tool to represent the contents of the vast and deep tunnels of the unconscious.
Recently named one of PDN's 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch, she received an Honorable Mention in the Official Selection Artemergente National Monterrey Biennale 2012 with her series "The two-headed horse". She was also a finalist for the scholarship Roberto Villagraz 2012 for the Master of Photography EFTI, Madrid, Spain, and won the 3rd. National Photography Competition La Membrana. With the same series she received an Honorable Mention in the 32nd. Photography Contest Photographer's Forum and was a finalist for the 2012 APA Scholarship awarded by Lucie Foundation in Los Angeles, California. She recieved an Honorable Mention in the contest for Contemporary Photography in Mexico of the Mexican Foundation for Film and Arts of Coahuila.
Named one of the FotoFest Successes of the Meeting Place 2012, as a result of her participation with the series "The two headed horse", at the portfolio reviews in FotoFest, Houston, Texas, United States in March, 2012.
She is represented in Mexico by Patricia Conde Galeria, specialized in photography.
She was benefitted with a scholarship from CONACULTA for the Artist Residency Program FONCA-CONACYT in Buenos Aires in 2013 to continue her series “The two headed horse”.
In Mexico City, where she lives with her twin sister for 15 years now, she has studied photography at Nacho Lopez Photography School, LMI and AAVI. In 2011 she has been selected to participate in the Contemporary Photography Seminar at Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, where she was a student of renowned photographers and national and international curators Pippa Oldfield Impressions Gallery, England; Jin Yoon Me, Canada, Brazil Joao Castilho, Ana Casas and Alejandro Castellanos of Mexico, among others.
Her work revolves around identity and memory and the way both are mingled and affected by each other, time and space. She examines personal relations related to memory and the thin and elusive line dividing memories and fiction.
She has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Mexico City, Barcelona and New York and Ireland since 2006 and had three solo exhibitions: in the Embassy of Argentina in Mexico, the second one in Gallery Acceso B in Mexico City and the last one recently in Mexico City at Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana. She is working on her upcoming solo show in Fotogalería del Teatro San Martin in Buenos Aires, Argentina in May curated by Juan Travnick.
Awards and Grants
2012
-Recipient of the Artist in Residency Program FONCA-CONACYT for a project in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2013.
-Honorable Mention in National Biennial Artemergente CONARTE Monterrey 2012.
-Nominated for the 2012 PDN´s 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch.
-Honorable Mention in the Mexican Contemporary Photography Contest, Coahuila, Mexico.
-Selected to participate in Trasatlantica 2012, PHOTOESPAÑA, México.
-Shortlisted for the Athens Photo Festival 2012.
-Shorlisted for the 2012 APA/Lucie Foundation Scholarship, Los Angeles, USA.
-Winner of the 3rd National Photography Contest, La Membrana, Guadalajara, Mexico.
-Honorable Mention at the 32st Annual Spring Photography Contest, Photographer´s Forum Magazine.(included in the Best of Photography 2012 Book)
-Finalist, EFTI Roberto Villagraz Scholarship, Madrid, Spain.
Solo Shows
2013
-The two headed horse, curated by Juan Travnick, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2012
-The two headed horse, Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico City, Mexico.
2010
-Yo me quiero casar, Gallery Acceso B, Mexico City, Mexico.
-Porteña, Argentinian Embassy in Mexico City, Mexico.
Group Shows
2013
-The two headed horse, Fundación Sebastián, Exhibition of the finalists of Mexican Contemporary Photography Contest, Mexico City, Mexico.
-The two headed horse, 15th Photograpy Biennal, Alumni Exhibition, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico (upcoming).
2012
- The two headed horse, Official Selection National Biennial Artemergente CONARTE Monterrey 2012, Centro de las Artes, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
-The two headed horse, Secretaría de Cultura, Exhibition of the finalists of Mexican Contemporary Photography Contest, Saltillo, Coahuila, México.
-ASPECT, part of the Photo event THERE THERE curated by Stag & Deer, Cork, Ireland.
- AFTH, Art from the Heart, Gowanus Loft, New York, USA.
-2012 Pro´jekt Summer Series presented by LUCIE FOUNDATION, Los Angeles, USA.
-Hasta Mostla, Centro Cultural de España en México, Mexico City, Mexico.
2010
-Periodistas sin voz, Alliance Francaise, Mexico City, Mexico.
2009
-Photojournalism at Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
2008
-LLUCART, Supermercado del arte, Mexico City, Mexico.
-Caja de Luz Festival, Miscelanea Gallery, Barcelona, Spain.
-Slideluck Potshow in New York and Mexico City.
2007
-Collective, Centro Cultural de España en Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico.
2006
-The journey, LAC ( Contemporary Art Lab), Mexico City, Mexico.
Selected online publications
.Zonezero con la serie “El caballo de dos cabezas”
http://zonezero.com/zz/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1376&catid=2&Itemid=7?=es
.PICNIC Magazine/ Issue 49: Travelers
.SMBH (SuperMassiveBlackHole Magazine) con la serie “El caballo de dos cabezas”
.F-Stop Magazine : Group Exhibition Latin Amercia Issue
.Fototazo, series The two headed horse.
.PDNPulse- FotoFest Standouts, series The two headed horse.
.Visura Magazine Spotlight , series Home.
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