2021 Exhibition
22. ephemeral angels
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Artist Information
“ephemeral angels” is an interactive audio-visual installation, which invites participation and movement, a poetic and lighthearted experience.
Visitors saw themselves as reflected in a mirror with wings of white plumage, like a magical mirage.
The movement of the wings activates a particles system, generating lights and sounds.
In a first approach, this work does not refer only to Philosophical Creatures but also to the beginnings of Aviation Science:
“… mimicking birds, Humans become angels … ”
Concepts of biomimicry related to the first attempts to fly in Human History, such as those by Leonardo da Vinci and Otto Lilienthal, inspire this Artwork.
Wings and feathers treatment bases on the studies of Otto Lilienthal collected in the publication “The bird flight as the basis of the art of flying” from 1889. In the original prologue he wrote:
“I intended to […] create a work which should spread the conviction, that there is no law in nature that, like an insurmountable bolt, encloses the solution to flying.“
Going deeper into the Collective Imaginary is possible to better understand the pleasure that this work awakens in some visitors, one of them confessed:
This work creates a space of pre-lingual and ancestral happiness…
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Mariana Carranza
Mariana Carranza (Uruguay / Germany)
Video+Digital-Art. Interactive Interfaces. Installations. Performances
Visual artist with multidisciplinary background studied architecture at the TU-Montevideo. Further Artistic education in Latin America, USA, Spain and Germany.
Scholarships, including Organization of American States; Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid; Arteleku, San Sebastian.
Early occupation with dance, performances and choreography. Since 1988 works with new technologies, video productions, digital media and creative programming.
The focus of her work lies in the creation of interactive sites and exploration of interfaces between body, movement, space, image and sound, connecting poetry and technology.
She likes to remove the boundaries between reality and virtuality, encourage participation and co-creation, aiming raise awareness on specific situations.
Solo and group exhibitions in America, Europe and Asia.
Lectures and courses at Universities, cooperation with Art Academies and Curatorial activities.
marianacarranza.art
Selected works, awards and activities:
Awards
Sponsorship Federal Program NEUSTART KULTUR
Narcissus.app, Intel RealSense Award Global Challenge
constelaciones, Choreographic Captures Award and Filmpreis, Filmfest München
constelaciones, International Award, VAD 2011, Girona, Spanien
Artist in Residence
2019 Makerspace Creapolis, HS Coburg
2018, 2016 ZK/U, Berlin
2016 EAC Montevideo
Digital Art-Festivals
2017, 2013, 2012 VIDEOFORMES# France
2014, 2013 TRACES, France
Projects at MediaLab-Prado, Spain
2016 Ephemeral Angels
2011 Mares y Malabares
Exhibitions / Performances
2020 Cuerpos de la memoria, Hier=Jetzt, Munich
2019 ephemeral angels, Urban Screen, Coburg
2018 Cuerpos de la memoria, 10. Biennale Contemporary Art, Berlin
2017 BCI Race, MakeMunich, Munich
2016 Following Bees, Urban Screen ICC Building / Open Sky Gallery / ISEA Foundation.
2015 constelaciones, Maximiliansforum, Munich
2011 estrellas, Urban Screen des Medialab- Prado, Spanien