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“Characterised by the use of unconventional materials, Cardoso's work reveals her longstanding fascination with the natural world and the complexity of our relationship to it. Some of the works use the preserved bodies of frogs and lizards and dead butterflies, which are farmed for scientific and educational purposes. Others draw on dried sea creatures produced by the tourist industry as souvenirs of the seaside holiday, or in the case of the sea horses, are bred and used in Chinese medicine. These raw materials, with their potent symbolism, create works of great beauty, which recall patterns that exist in the natural world as well as minimalist sculpture, where simple elements are repeated to create more complex forms”.

See Zoomorphia, exhibition and catalog by the Museum for Contemporary Art, Sydney at
http://www.mca.com.au/modules/zoomorphia/

 

María Fernanda Cardoso
Cemetery -- Vertical Garden/Cementerio -- jardín vertical
(detail)
1992-99
artificial flowers and pencil on wall
dimensions variable

 

Cardoso : Flee circus artist in action

 

María Fernanda Cardoso installing her work Jardín Vertical María Fernanda Cardoso

 

Butterfly Drawings / Dibujos de Mariposas 2002

 

butterfly wings, perspex, metal

 

Video Chicken Face, Fish Face, Bat Face / Cara de Gallina, Cara de Pescado, Cara da Murcielago 2002-2003

 

Sheep 2002
dyed sheepksins

 

Cardoso Flea Circus / Circo de Pulgas Cardoso 1996
Detail: Circus arena with props

Présentation:
Maria Fernanda Cardoso , Columbian-born, Sydney-based artist