As a principle, photography is a contradiction: the continuous flow of time is constant motion, the picture is a kind of static time.
In the images we contemplate the transience of time, the mobile eye projected on a camera lens, placed above the Earth and objects made by God or man. All photography is an act of faith, it is our own perception itself fighting for its right to exist and be interpreted as legitimate. The particularity of the artist's eye behind the camera is at the end the affirmation of their individuality, more than the stubborn illustration of a speech. (The photographer's fascination should not be strictly from a voyeur, hidden behind a barricade of curiosity, but rather that of a flaneur, making a commitment, often painful, to the experience of horror and beauty).
Juan Garcia Ponce wrote: "A picture: a time gone, that does not belong to anyone, however, has found its place, has a space, and is in that image, and alive and still."
The words of García Ponce, with all its poetic and despite it, suggest a loss. The image belongs irrevocably to the past, appears to be something unique to the field of memory. The hint of nostalgia for the magic moment frozen precedence over what may give an image, endlessly, at every glance. The image must be able by itself to cause the viewer the evocation of something possible, a story or at least a piece of history. This narrative element and dynamics suggest a literary event, vague and indeterminate, no limits, no beginnings or endings. As in a novel or a story, the series of images (within their own space) confirm the existence of a universe, or the creation of an illusory "strategy or method that has haunted Silvana since its inception as an artist," only this time it is not presenting a decipherable world, nor a microscopic reflection of the real universe, but a kind of blank page that the viewer, with full freedom of imagination can fill.
Move to another part, the illusion of travel, at the end one of the natural targets of fiction.
Author: David Mandujano


1997. Degree in Industrial Chemical Engineering. Universidad Autonoma de Yucatan. Merida. Yuc. Specialization in Electronic Microscopy of Barrido.


Solo Exhibitions
Micromaravillas, Escarabajos del Sureste. CICY. Merida, Yuc., Mexico 2010
Micromaravillas, Escarabajos del Sureste. Galeria Jardin, ITESO: Guadalajara, Jal. Mexico. 2010
El Oraculo. Imagenes para meditar. FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2009. Galeria In La'Kech. Merida, Yuc., Mexico. 2009
El Pais de Mirabilia. Museo Universitario. Puebla, Pue., Mexico. 2007
El Pais de Mirabilia. Galeria Photo - Pro. Merida. Yuc., Mexico. 2006


Awards
2010
Mart. Seleccion de Artistas Emergentes para Nuevos Coleccionistas. 2010-2011
First Place by Jury, category B, in the 4th International Photography Contest "how do you see science?". Organized by the Red de Universidades Valencianas para el fomento de la I+D+i (RUVID), in collaboration with the seven universities of the Comunitat Valenciana. Valencia, Spain. 2010
Honorific Mention. Cientific Photography National Contest in the category "La investigacion Cientifica que se realiza en Mexico y sus aplicaciones tecnologicas" CONACYT, Mexico
Scholarship from Programa de Estimulos a la Creacion y Desarrollo Artistico de Yucatan, edicion 2010. Fondos de Cultura del Estado de Yucatan y FONCA
Selection in first contest OJOS DEL TIEMPO. Editorial group Rendija. Mexico
Selection Fourth Biennial of Visual Arts. Miradas 2010. Tijuana.B. C. Mexico

2009
First Place by Jury, category B, in the 3rd International Photography Contest "how do you see science?". Convocado por la Red de Universidades Valencianas para el fomento de la I+D+i (RUVID), en colaboracion con las siete universidades de la Comunitat Valenciana. Valencia, Spain. 2009
First Place by Jury, at the Cientific Photography National Contests 2009, en la categoria "La investigacion Cientifica que se realiza en Mexico y sus aplicaciones tecnologicas" CONACYT, Mexico. 2009
FOTOSEPTIEMBRE 2009. Seleccion FotoSeptiembre. Centro de la Imagen. D.F. Mexico.
PREMIO DE ADQUISICION. VII Biennial Puebla de los Angeles 2009. Premio de Adquisicion. Universidad Iberoamericana de Puebla. Puebla, Mexico
Honorific Mention. IV National Biennial of Visual Arts Yucatan 2009. Merida, Yuc., Mexico

2008
Selected 2nd Place Fahrenheit a la Fotografia Contemporanea. Mexico. D.F.

2007
Selected VIII Biennial Monterrey FEMSA. Monterrey, N.L. Mexico

2006
Selected National Contest of Photography CUARTOSCURO 2006. Mexico. D.F.
4th Place in the Contest for International Association of Photographers. Las Vegas, Nevada. USA
Award to Scientific Photography. Sigma Aldrich. Mexico. D.F.


Exhibitions
2010
How do you see science. Botanic Gardens of the Universidad de Valencia. Valencia, Spain
La Agenda Perpetua del Tiempo. Ojos del Tiempo. Ex convento del Carmen. Guadalajara, Jal. Mexico
Fourth National Biennial of Visual Arts. Miradas 2010. Tijuana B. C. Mexico
Para que mejor se pueda ver lo que es. Museo de la Cuidad de Merida. Merida, Yuc., Mexico
Entorno Creativo. Galeria de Arte Municipal de Merida. Merida, Yuc. Mexico

2009
IV National Biennial of Visual Arts Yucatan 2009. Siglo XXI. Merida Yuc. Mexico
VII Biennial Puebla de los Angeles 2009. Universidad Iberoamericana de Puebla. Puebla, Pue., Mexico

2008
2nd Place Fahrenheit to Contemporary Photography. Poliforum Siqueiros. Mexico D.F.

2007
VIII Biennial Monterrey FEMSA. Centro de las Artes. Monterrey, N.L. Mexico
Deambular Urbano. PHOTOIMAGEN France Embassy. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
Exvotos. El Arte de Dar Gracias. Centro Cultural Fotografico 116. CONARTE. Monterrey, N.L. Mexico
National Contest of Photography CUARTOSCURO 2006. Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico. Mexico D.F.