How do you see the relationship between emotional and intellectual perception of your work? In particular, how much do you consider the immersive nature of the viewing experience?
I think my primary focus for most of my work is the immersive nature of the viewing experience. I attempt to recreate movement, color, sound or whatever element I’m currently working with, so that it can create a stimulus, which in turn triggers an emotion or sensation – either through the distortion of time and/or space, or the exposure to color, movement, visuals and sound. So in general, I think it is about how exposure to these stimuli can generate a strong response in the viewer, accessing the emotional library of each individual; the prior knowledge or intellectual aspect gets displaced by the emotional idiosyncrasy, allowing everyone to experience the artwork on their own terms.
Thanks a lot for your time and for sharing your thoughts, Mariano. Finally, would you like to tell us readers something about your future projects? How do you see your work evolving?
Considering the current state of the Earth’s pollution and the increasing rate of climate change, it is becoming almost impossible not to bring this into my work, since it is something that occupies most of my thoughts these days. Many artists I admire have worked with this topic, and it is through these artworks that I have found a profound connection and concern for the planet’s well-being since everything is at stake. I would love to be able to focus my future work to generate the same effect that works by people such as Tomás Saraceno and Drift Studio have had upon me.