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Mariana Telleria Rufino, Santa Fe, 1979 In November 2019, Mariana Telleria posted on Instagram images of a TV screen showing a ranking of beliefs. It appears that, from 2008 to 2019, belief in astrology grew over seven points and in energy over ten points, while belief in God, the Virgin Mary, Jesus, and the saints had fallen considerably. One artist who saw the post wrote her a message: “Astrology and the Devil rose together. Long live the witches!” Another wrote, “I am going to start working for elfology.” In her work, Telleria reveals, subverts, and transforms reality in unsuspected ways. She describes her practice as the inevitable act of seeking, inferring, and finding forms within other forms or a story hidden amidst things. Regarding the work on exhibit here, she states, “Performing geometric operations on any surface whatsoever, which I tend to do, is an exercise intuitive at times and, at others, Cartesian in its rationalism. My interest lies more in jokes than in truths.”
Página anterior: Mariana Telleria Untitled. From the series “God Believes in Me", 2012 Courtesy of the artist and Ruth Benzacar Galería de Arte