My projects tend to transmit or portray my inner feelings, interests, concerns, questions. My work is very intimate and exploratory, with the intention of representing outside what is inside.
MARIALE MENDOZA
My goal is to represent outside what is inside
BIO
Lawyer, converted to photographer, born in Venezuela and currently living in Santiago de Chile.
Started her photography studies in Caracas at Roberto Mata School of Photography, and then continued her informal education participating in numerous workshops in Chile, and has been part of Javiera Infante´s Project Development class throughout 2021 and 2022.
Although documentary photography was always appealing to her, it wasn’t until she had to migrate, that she completely reached to it as a way to understand her new surroundings, and so turns her attention to explore places and live new experiences, while registering them with an honest gaze. This is when she begins her work centered in the everyday life, time, family and her new reality, that she is a foreigner.
Her search is to find beauty in the mundane through her photography.
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Exhibitions
2024
Gallery Gally Art. Miami. January 2024. Collective Exhibition, Latin American Photographers, with the series “Flowers & Circuits”.
2023
Factoria Franklin. Santiago de Chile. January 2023. Project Development 2022 Collective Exhibition, with the series “The absence that’s always here”
2022
Galeria AFA. Santiago de Chile. January-March 2022. Exhibition Project “Parajes”
Factoría Franklin. Santiago de Chile. January 2022. Project Development 2021 Collective Exhibition, with the series “Parajes”
Publications / Awards
2022
Galeria AFA. Santiago de Chile. January-March 2022. Exhibition Project “Parajes”
Clients
Engel & Voelkers · Sundes
Education
2021-2022
Project Development Lab · Javiera Infante
2021
Photobook online Lab · Mariela Sancari
2020
Editing and Fine Art Printing Workshop · Miguel Angel Larrea and Fracisco Espíldora
2019
Documentary Photography & Storytelling Workshop · Tamara Merino
Documentary Photography Workshop · Jesús Ochoa
2011-2017
Photography Studies · Roberto Mata Taller de Fotografía
2001
Law Attorney · Universidad Católica Andrés Bello.
“Photography is my outlet.
It’s the best way I know how to express myself”