Mariana Paniagua Cortés (Mexico City, 1994) explores landscape as a multiplicity of forces, as well as the different configurations they take on as a body situated within the world. At the same time, she investigates the figuration that emerges from the processes of painting: an accumulation of layers of time and materialities that settle until they condense into an object that seems to return a rarefied gaze. Her work is based on experimentation and, above all, on error in the pictorial process.
She was selected for the Alfredo Zalce, Julio Castillo, and José Atanasio Monroy biennials in 2022, the National Young Art Encounter in 2017, and has been awarded the FONCA Young Creators grant three times: in 2021, 2018, and 2016. She has a degree in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Arts and Design at UNAM, where she is currently pursuing a master’s degree.