Snapshot 08: La Galera by Mariana Sequera Dorronsoro
Reception Corridor, John Lennon Art and Design Building, Liverpool School of Art and Design.
February 10, 2025 – March 10, 2025
Monday – Friday, 9:00am – 5:00pm
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Snapshot presents Snapshot 08: La Galera by Mariana Sequera Dorronsoro. MA Fine Art student and artist, Mariana, uses her practice to reconnect with her family’s tribal heritage of the Venezuelan Jira Jaras, through the exploration of Indigenous methodologies, Agnes Varda’s gleaning approach, and Assemblage Philosophy.
Her multi-disciplinary approach incorporates foraged materials and gardening techniques, drawing inspiration from childhood stories told to her by her great-great grandmother. These are used to convey practices of traditional tribal protection magic and evoke ideas of Indigenous resurgence and reconciliation. The project aims to bring attention to the importance of ancestral protection, to guard stories at risk of being forgotten and to preserve the legacy of Mariana’s people, whose existence was nearly erased following Spanish colonisation.
Through this edition of Snapshot, she is interested in exploring methods of display, looking at how to best present the materials and research in a way that most effectively reflects its cultural significance and thematic depths.
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Curatorial Team for this edition:
Francesca Fryer
Sophie Donovan
Jamie Newall
Olivia Neill
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Snapshot is a permanent display programme of sequentially changing creative outputs. It provides an impression of each participant’s practice located in a liminal space in the School, where visitors spend only fleeting moments whilst travelling to other spaces or waiting to enter classes.
The project is the result of an ongoing open call to all visiting researchers and practitioners, staff and students of all levels on all programmes at Liverpool School of Art and Design.
It presents incomplete, transitory views of research-and-practice-in-progress; a window into a brief moment in time of a given academic year. The displays are selected based on aesthetic criteria of how to best animate the space they occupy, projecting forwards in time the potential each work holds.
As the year progresses a living archive will develop on the concrete pillar next to each pair of vitrines, providing information about past and current displays.
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Developed by Dr James Schofield, Dr Hana Leaper and Dr Christine Eyene (Exhibition Research Lab), and managed by students from the MA Exhibition Studies programme.
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