Mariela Sancari (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1976). She lives and works in Mexico City since 1997.
Her work revolves around truthfulness and fiction in images, using personal narratives to explore the boundaries of the scope of photography as a means of representation. It refers to the affective dimension, yet not sentimental, of autobiographical work, as well as formal explorations of the medium, through questions related to staging and self-referentiality in photographic practice.
She has received numerous awards for her work: Winner of the VI Bienal Nacional de Artes Visuales Yucatan 2013 and PHotoEspaña Descubrimientos Prize 2014, her work was selected for the XVI Bienal de Fotografía from Centro de la Imagen and received an Honorable Mention in XI Bienal Monterrey FEMSA, among others.
She has participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Guatemala, Sao Paulo, Caracas, Houston, Los Angeles, Athens, Belfast, London, Barcelona, Madrid, Busan and Jaipur, among others.
Her first book Moisés was selected by several curators and reviewers, such as Sean O'Hagan, Tim Clark, Erik Kessels, Jörg Colberg, Larissa Leclair, Yumi Goto and Colin Pantall, among others, as one of the Best Photobooks published in 2015. In 2017 she published her second book in collaboration with writer Adolfo Córdova: Mr. & Dr. Her new book The two headed horse. Reenactment in ten acts will be released with Asunción Casa Editora in 2020.
Coordinator of FOLIO, a public photobook library and program of Centro de la Imagen, in Mexico City.