Artist Biography
Mexican, born in June 30, 1990. I am studing graphic design, but my passion has always been art. I refused to take photography, painting or drawing classes. What know I’ve learned due to practice. When I was a child, I had a fascination for the surrealism, I started to draw since I could grab a pencil, but I never felt satisfied with the drawings and paintings that I made in all my life. At the age of 15, I worked as model with some photographers and in a fashion agency.
Later, I wanted to be in front and in behind of the camera, at the same time. At 16, I started experimenting with self portraits, just for vanity, and later for expression. I started to feel something that I did not find in the traditional art. At the beginning, I had a confusion of personality, but after months of madness, I found my style, myself and my work. I made my first complete exhibit at 17 years old: "The Behaded Diary".
From that moment, I have made exhibitions of my work in Mexico, United States and Germany. Also, I have 3 artbook publications in Poland, done many CD artworks for bands and other works as freelance. My art has been published in many art magazines, online and printed. In October of 2009 I gave my first conference in the Design International Forum, In the University Tecnologica de Monterrey, Mexico, at age of 19.
Artist Statement
I am my own model in almost all my pieces, sometimes the people take this like a reflection of vanity. But my work is not a self portrait of me, my body is just an instrument, a tool that I use to create my art, that is why somethimes I am unrecognizable in my own works. My artwork is inspired by many untouchable and unexplained things. It is difficult to give a category of what kind of art I do.
Probably, conceptual and surreal are the most indicated terms, but I prefer not to use labels. I take everything off; My bowels, my heart, my ideas, my bones, my memories, my letters...
Everything is out of my body, and when it's there, in my left side, the world comes and make what ever that the world wants with that organs, and I am there, being a spectator of my own transformation.
This is not a mirrow of me, is a mirrow of everything, of everybody. I feel so satisfied when somebody find something in my works, that is also inside of him, but something that he never noticed before.
contact: mariana.palova@hotmail.com
Mariana Palova
