Samsara II, 2010Digital Photograpy81.8 x 111.76 cms

When I build these mini sculptures, I feel that nature experiences me as well as I experience nature. There is a dynamic in the process, quiet and powerful: a silent dialogue.

Samsara IV, 2010Digital Photograpy79.8 x 111.76 cms

In this work I use psychological archetypes as my main source. They give form to the idea and suggest an emotional pattern to the shape.

Samsara I, 2010Digital Photograpy66.7 x 111.76 cms

Samsara III, 2011Digital Photograpy80.2 x 111.76 cms

For me, this work serves as a mirror reflecting how we experience life and cope with death.

I work with nature to understand my own death… Understand that I too, am in transit.

Samsara V, 2012Digital Photograpy66.5 x 111.76 cms

When I think about death, life comes to mind, and questions about who am I, and why am I here, emerge. Thus, my relation to the world, to nature and to art, changes…

Samsara VI, 2012Digital Photograpy81.8 x 111.76 cms

“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.”Edvard Munch

Action with Installation, 2012

“Samsara” is a word in Sanskrit allusive to the cycles of birth, life, death and reincarnation, common to all beings that inhabit the Earth. It´s about a cyclical concept of the existence based on continuous transformation. María Fernanda Carlos presents elements of nature as witnesses of life and death. The artist draws upon organic forms in her quest to represent a series of psychological archetypes.

The photographic documentation becomes her proposal as how to freeze the life and death of these elements. As they are transformed, they go through all the stages of life´s cycle in front of the artist.

In this natural process, María Fernanda places herself as nature itself, in the privileged position of the witness observing the continuous change, beginning and end at the same time.

Giuliana Vidarte

WALK, 2009Digital Photograpy

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Born in Mexico D.F., Mexico 1977Place of Residence: Guatemala, Guatemala

My work is inspired by life and its fragility; also by loss as well as noise and silence. Nature, humans, nothingness and everything. I work photography, video, installations and art objects.

Individual Exhibitions 2009 Tacita de Plata, Gallery Ana Lucía Gómez, Latin American Art, Guatemala.2007 Komo Espacio, Guatemala.2006 VIP Exhibition, National Theatre. Guatemala.2005 El tiempo y sus Epifanías, Cultural Center El Sitio, Antigua Guatemala.

María Fernanda Carlos

Collective Exhibitions

2012 Scope, Jacob Karpio Gallery. Miami.2012 Samsara, 9 cuartos. Costa Rica.2011 Exit, Centro Cultural de España. San Salvador.2011 Exit, Kilómetro 0 Gallery . Guatemala.2011 Exit, Centro Cultural de España. Managua.2011 Exit , Centro Cultural de España. Costa Rica.2010 Que los muertos hablan, curaduría por María Victoria

Veliz y Valía Garzón. FOTO30, Guatemala.2010 Tribu, curada por Emiliano Valdés, FOTO30,

Guatemala.2010 Saludos Amigos, curada por Robson Cezar. Hanbury

Hall,Londres.2009 El Ferrocarril de los Altos, curada por Rosina Cazali,

Museo del Ferrocarril, Guatemala. FOTO30, Guatemala.

2009 Saludos Amigos, curada por Robson Cezar. OutsideWorld Gallery, Londres.

2008 Chelsea Motel, Chelsea Space, Londres.2008 13, Union Tavern, Londres.2007 Autoretratos, Carlos Woods, Arte Antiguo y

Contemporaneo, Guatemala.2006 Ana Lucía Gómez, Latin American Art,

Guatemala.2006 Sexo y Poder, Casa del Mango, Antigua

Guatemala.2005 Museo Ixchel, Guatemala.2005 Bancafe, Guatemala. 2004 Casa del Águila, Guatemala.2003 Suae, Guatemala.

Auctions

2011 Juannio, Guatemala.2011 Fundación Rozas-Botrán, Guatemala.2011 Junkabal, Guatemala.2010 Junkabal, Guatemala.2010 Fundación Rozas-Botrán, Guatemala.2009 Fundación Rozas-Botrán, Guatemala.2008 La raíz de la vida, Guatemala2007 Juannio, Guatemala.2007 Fundación Rozas -Botrán, Guatemala.2007 Funsilec, Guatemala.2007 Club Rotario, Guatemala.2006 Juannio, Guatemala.2006 Club Rotario, Guatemala.2005 Creciendo bien, Guatemala.2005 Juannio, Guatemala.

Studies

2010 Residence for Central American Artists PACES, EspIRA/ La ESPORA, Nicaragua.

2010 Cultura vrs Cultura II, Investigation & Creativity Workshop – by María Victoria Veliz

2010 TACON, Contemporary Art Workshop by María Victoria Veliz y StefanBenchoam, Guatemala.

2010 Multiple Objects (workshop)by Amor Munoz. Mexico2009 Abstract drawing and painting workshop. Central Saint Martins

College of Art andDesign, London, U.K.2008 Art Postgraduate. Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, U.K.2006 Photographic Documentary with David Allan Harvey (Nacional

Geographic) Sicilia, Italia.2005 Digital Artistic Photography with Montiel Klint, México, D.F.2004 Architecture Photography in low light conditions with GenneKennedy y

Mark Citret, Sacramento,CA.2004 B/W Photography with Mark Citret, SantaFe, NM.2003 Artistic photography with Gerardo Montiel Klint, México, D.F.2002 Landscape photography with Barbara Brundege. Napa Valley, CA2001 Fashion Photography with Barbara Bordnick en Golden Gate School. San Francisco, CA.