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.
SOLO EXHBITIONS
2023
”Ballet Mécanique”, Bigaignon, Paris
2021
”Landscapes and Constellations”, Módulo Gallery, Lisbon
2019
”The Question concerning the thing”, Galerie Módulo, Lisbon
2013
”Naquele Outro dia”, Pickpocket Gallery, Lisbon
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
”Boutographies - Rencontres Photographiques de Montpellier” – Official Selection
2020
“É pelo olhar que muda o homem e o mundo”, Módulo Gallery, Lisbon
“Ar.Co – Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual School, Bolseiros e Finalistas”, Pavilhão Branco, Museum of the city of Lisbon, Lisbon
2019
”The question concerning the thing”, Gare du Nord, Paris Photo, Paris
“Speculum Cum Macula", Módulo Gallery, Lisbon
Bienal de Fotografia de Vila Franca de Xira BF18, Vila Franca de Xira, curated by Sandra Vieira Jürgens
Ar.Co – Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual School, Bolseiros e Finalistas
2018
Cais do Sodré Subway Station (Lisbon) Photomaton, Instalation, colective project with the artists Bruno Parente (Lisbon) and Rossella Nisio (Rotterdam)
XX Bienal Internacional de Arte de Cerveira, Vila Nova de Cerveira, curated by Cabral Pinto
Arte Jovem Carpe Diem Award finalists Fundação Millennium BCP, Águas Livres 8 Gallery, Lisbon, curated by Lourenço Egreja
Panorama, LeConsulat Gallery, Lisbon, curated by Adelaide Ginga
9:3, produced by Ocupart, Lisbon, curated by Sofia Marçal
2017
Ar.Co – Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual School, Lisbon, Bolseiros e Finalistas
2016
Ar.Co – Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual School, Lisbon,, Autumn Exhibition
2015
Ar.Co – Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual School, Lisbon, Finalists Exhibition, complete studies on photography
FAIRS AND FESTIVALS
2020 Boutographies - Rencontres Photographiques de Montpellier - Official Selection (postponed to 2021)
2019 Art Toronto (Toronto), Carpe Diem Art & Research
2019 Paris Photo, Carte Blanche Étudiants winner
2019 Photoespaña, selection to Descubrimientos section
2019 Drawing Room Lisboa (Lisbon), Módulo Gallery
2019 IMAGO LISBOA ("Other Spaces" program), Lisbon
2018 JUSTLX (Módulo Gallery), Lisbon
