(...) The figures Mariana creates exist in metamorphosis, an ungraspable term that slides through your hands like an eel in a muddy stream. They are an oath to change and transformation, entities in permanent reconfiguration and that also change you. Metamorphosis is Mariana’s medium, the shape of her brushes and pencils and the plot of her videos, the trait that brings her work together as one across its variations of styles and supports. Metamorphosis is an important process for the times we are living in, which makes her drawings, sculptures and films particularly meaningful: when so much is in crisis and change, and there is so little out there to help us cope with the pluriverse, the certainty of transformation offers a pathway for imagination and creativity to find their way forward. (...)"

FILIPA RAMOS
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