FERNANDO MARANTE
Born in 1973, Fernando Marante is a visual artist whose experimental work explores the effects of time in the construction of the photographic image. Fernando’s quest is an attempt to reveal visually, outside the territory of language, something whose existence is only a speculation, to unveil the hypothesis-images which remain invisible in between two points of time.
Through movement, the artist uses time as a tool to formally play on variation, multiplication and addition, contraction and distension, accumulation and disaggregation. He creates images that are maps of intentions, visual fingerprints of all the decisions taken during the photographic process.
Fernando studied photograghy at Ar.Co – Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual in Lisbon from 2013 to 2019, where he won two scholarships, sponsored by Leonor and António Parreira and by the Victor e Graça Carmona e Costa Foundation.
SELECTED ARTWORKS
SOLO SHOWS
2023 ”Ballet Mécanique”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2021 ”L’Image Divergente - 1 : Paysages et Constellations”, Galerie Módulo, Lisbon, Portugal
2019 ”The question Concerning the Thing”, Galerie Módulo, Lisbon, Portugal
2013 ”Naquele Outro dia”, Galerie Pickpocket, Lisbon, Portugal
GROUP SHOWS
2022 “Radical Perspectives”, Bigaignon, Paris, France
2021 ”Boutographies – Rencontres Photographiques de Montpellier”, Official Selection, Montpellier, France
2020 “É pelo olhar que muda o homem e o mundo”, Módulo Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2020 ”Bolseiros e Finalistas”, Pavilhão Branco, Musée de la Cité de Lisbonne, Ar.Co – Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual, Bolseiros e Finalistas, Lisbon, Portugal
2019 ”The question concerning the thing”, Gare du Nord, Paris Photo, Paris, France
2019 ”Speculum Cum Macula”, Módulo Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2019 “Official Selection”, Bienal de Fotografia de Vila Franca de Xira BF18 (Vila Franca de Xira), Portugal
2019 Bolseiros e Finalistas, Ar.Co – Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 ”Photomaton”, collective project with Bruno Parente et Rossella Nisio, Station de Cais do Sodré, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 “Official Selection”, XX Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira (Vila Nova de Cerveira), Portugal
2018 “Arte Jovem Carpe Diem”, Gallery Águas Livres 8, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 “Panorama”, LeConsulat Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
2018 ”9:3”, produced by Ocupart, Lisbon, Portugal
2017 ”Bolseiros e Finalistas”, Ar.Co – Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual, Lisbon, Portugal
DISTINCTIONS
2021 Official Selection, Boutographies, Rencontres Photographiques de Montpellier
2020 Shortlisted, Athens Photo Festival
2020 Shortlisted, Prix Mentor #Arles
2019 Winner, Paris Photo Carte Blanche Étudiants
2019 Finalist, PHotoespaña Descubrimientos
2018 Scholarship Fundação Victor e Graça Carmona e Costa, Ar.Co
2018 Official Selection, Bienal de Fotografia de Vila Franca de Xira – BF18
2018 Finalist, Arte Jovem Carpe Diem Fundação Millennium BCP prize
2018 Official Selection, XX Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira
2016 Scholarship Leonor e António Parreira, Ar.Co