Left: The Farewell, Oil on Canvas, 61 in. x 69 in. (155 cm. x 175 cm. ) Right: My Anguish Was Like Wanting to Speak Before Dying, Oil on Canvas 62.80 in. x 58.94 in. (160 cm. x 150 cm.)
Tyreek Morrison
Mariana Paniagua’s paintings emerge through time and sediment. Her work is rooted in a process of continuous layering — material gestures accumulate, vanish, and build again — producing surfaces that carry weight, trace, and memory. The canvas becomes a landscape of presence and absence, a visual record of making, unmaking, and becoming.
Her practice moves beyond representation; through abstraction she explores painting as a physical archive, where materiality, chance, and persistence converge. What appears is not a fixed image but an event — a pulse, an echo, a residue.
Paniagua (b. 1994, Mexico City) holds a BFA in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Arts and Design, UNAM and expanded her education with a Diploma in Editorial Design. Her work has been recognized with the prestigious FONCA Young Creators awards in 2016–2017 and 2018–2019.
Her recent exhibitions include the solo show Hongos que brotan de la noche anterior at the Museo Cabañas — an exhibition that underscores her interest in painting as ecosystem, as textural organism, as trace of transformation.
Through her layered surfaces, Paniagua proposes a painting that doesn’t refer but becomes — painting as sediment, painting as archive of emotion, painting as a site of resilience and reconsideration.
b. 1994 Mexico City, Mexico.
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Oil, acrilyc, color pencil, oil pastel, spray paint, charcoal on canvas. 59 in. x 59 in. (150 cm. x 150 cm.)
