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Abstract Series, White Collection

Mariana Canet - 2016

Digital photography. Fine art prints in Canson Rag Photographique 310g. Drawing 6 units

120,00 cm height x 80,00cm width x 0,10 cm depth

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Mariana Canet

“Is nature as a whole, itself, already an art? Or do we see art in parts of nature? How does each one of us, individually, interpret reality?”

The word ‘influence’ indicates the action of an agent on someone or something, giving rise to changes. The Latin influentia referred literally to an action attributed to the stars, shaping human destiny.

When the subject is art, it’s undeniable that it exists – lodged somewhere in the unconscious, ready and waiting for manifestation. It comes into reality almost as if by instinct, and when we see it: there it is, materialized. Clearly, the way it exerts its influence will in turn reflect signs of the times, how technology develops, and so on – reorganizing points of view, transforming representations.

Photographer Mariana Canet is passionate for – and influenced by – Impressionism, and she instinctively transports us to the flower garden in Giverny of the French painter Claude Monet, considered to be the great master of the Impressionists. The photographs in her Reflexos series remit us to, and re-signify with resonant meaning, the collection of oil paintings of waterlilies that were the main focus of Monet’s output in the last 30 years of his life.

Mariana, who bases her production essentially on nature, explores the effect produced by light reflected in water, with refraction – her photographs reflect and refract reality.

Many of these works were painted when Monet already had cataracts. His water-scapes broke with the concept of landscape as a space, extending and redefining the spectator’s relationship with the picture. There is no horizon; the viewer sees the image in close-up.

Similarly, Mariana Canet, who bases her production essentially on nature, explores the effect produced by light reflected in water, with refraction – her photographs reflect and refract reality. The Real, reflected, is at the same time, reproduced, distorted and diverted. Thus she shows us, in each of her photographs, a multiplicity of realities – one could say: the real is diversified. She presents the viewer with several artifices – objects reflected in water, mirrors and colored lights in movement. She says she always asks herself: “Is nature as a whole, itself, already an art? Or do we see art in parts of nature?” She leaves the question open: how does each one of us, individually, interpret reality?

In her series Branco she explores the material, made and transformed by man, which also intrigues her. In this collection there are reflections of her looking at the limits that the color White allows us within the spheres and byways of the imagination. By definition, as the grouping of all the colors of the spectrum – it is thought of as ‘the color of light’; but if we speak of pigment, we speak of White as ‘absence of color’. It is also the color that reflects all the rays of light, not absorbing any – the maximum of brightness. Experience with abstract images points to a moment of technical reflection about White: what it is and what it represents.

Mariana Canet was born in 1983 in Curitiba, Paraná, and left an involvement with marketing in 2010 to study photography in London. In this period she decided this would be her professional career. At Central St Martin’s, in London, she did the courses in Alternative Photographic Process, and Creative Digital Photography. And in London she held her first solo gallery show. She returned to Brazil, having decided and determined to win her place in the local art market, and soon began to exhibit. A series of solo exhibitions included Reflexos, at the Oscar Niemeyer Museum in Curitiba; the exhibition Being and Having in Montreux, Switzerland; and the exhibit Naturalism, at Gallery 32 in the Brazilian Embassy in London. Her photographs are in private and public collections in Brazil and other countries.

She admits that she produces her images very intuitively. She believes abstract art is a window to freedom, to liberty, and that it is art that makes her want to go beyond matter – beyond the limits imposed by mankind.

“Art transforms reality into something intangible and intriguing,” she says, as she continues with the challenge of developing different photographic techniques.

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