After having accepted the invitation to write this text, I soon understood that we were speaking of something which no painter speaks about, or at least it is not very common to hear painters speaking about hesitation, or fear. 

The feeling of doubt, or “ not knowing where you go from there”, can be a factor that potentiates a certain more or less prolonged immobilization. But once a decision has been made, a decision that leads to the gesture, Mariana fights for acceptance. She says that accepting requires a breath. 

In her words: “ Having we made decisions in which we distrust, we learn to deal with those decisions in a manner that allow us to breathe – we accept, and we believe that the only possible path was the one we took.”

This exhibition was thought in a thematic way, using each painting as a metaphor for the way human beings deal with the feeling of regret, or the lack of it. With the feeling of hesitation, or the brutality of a convalescence.

The way this paintings were “drawn”, the conviction that subvertes itself in the line, naturalizes the figures with an ironic and almost careless state, to the point that they gain a life of their own: a playful environment gains an existence and mediates the interactions between these figures. 

“Welcoming a bit of irony, the humans represented in these paintings are having fun with the decisions they have made”. 

Ricardo Marcelino