Mariana Arellano Rojas

b. 25th of May 1992 in Santiago, Chile
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Since its first appearances, cinematography has struck the audience with its ability to construct a fictional reality similar to our first-hand experience. The representational, narrative-based mediatic culture in which we build our understanding of the world has conditioned the way in which we experience life. As a result, we exist as isolated protagonists in self-centred narratives where life imitates fiction and vice versa. 

In order to challenge this perception, I capture single frames from different films and using paint as a medium, I change their context by filtering the image through my own subjectivity. With this, I invite the audience to dialogue about representation vs. experience, about our (perhaps futile) search for a narrative meaning and, finally, about our levels of consciousness in a contemporary world where a degree of detachment to reality could sometimes be beneficial. 

In my latest body of work, I focused on blurring the boundary between painting and installation, introducing time as a factor in the construction of meaning. In film, as in real life, time orchestrates every experience, measurable from beginning to end. By creating a device which invites the spe...

· 2014: Bachelor's degree in Arts and Humanities from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile

Solo Exhibitions:
· 2019 | Apocalipsis Pausa (Apocalypse Pause) | Galería Espora, Santiago, Chile

Group Exhibitions:
· 2017 | Reserva Federal (Federal Reserve) | Galería Infrarrojo, Santiago, Chile
· 2017 | La Posverdad (Post-Truth) | MUTT Gallery, Santiago, Chile
· 2016 | Icebreaker | MUTT Gallery, Santiago, Chile
· 2015/16 | Mala Memoria (Bad Memory) | Galería Balmaceda Arte Joven, Santiago, Concepción and Viña del Mar, Chile

Art Fairs:
· 2018 | ART Stgo | GAM, Santiago, Chile
· 2016 | FAXXI | Bicentenario Park, Santiago, Chile