Mariela Sancari (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1976). She has lived and worked in Mexico City since 1997. Her work uses personal narratives to explore the limits of photography's scope as a means of representation. Her work refers to the affective —though not sentimental— dimension of autobiographical work, as well as formal explorations of the medium, through questions related to staging, self-referentiality in photographic practice, and its mechanisms of signification. She is the founder of FOLIO, the public photobook collection of the Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City. She has published three (photo)books: Moisés (La Fábrica, 2015 / 2nd edition self-published, 2022), Mr. & Dr. (This book is true, 2017) in collaboration with the writer Adolfo Córdova, and El caballo de dos cabezas. Representación en diez actos (Asunción Casa Editora, 2021). She has received numerous awards: winner of the 2013 Yucatán National Visual Arts Biennial and the PHotoEspaña Discoveries Award 2014. Her work was selected for the 16th Photography Biennial at the Centro de la Imagen and it received an Honourable Mention at the 11th Monterrey FEMSA Biennial, among others. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions in Athens, Barcelona, Bratislava, Buenos Aires, Busan, Guatemala City, Dublin, Houston, Jaipur, Los Angeles, London, Madrid, Oaxaca and Tenerife.
