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Mara Sánchez Renero (Mexico 1979) studied photography in Barcelona, ​​Spain, where she lived for 10 years. She was part of the collective boom of 2008, in Spain, where she was co-founder of the collective Malocchio and PHACTO. In her work, she is interested in finding places where she can create a scenario to explore the instability of the human condition. In her images we can witness the dissolution of constructed identity, in isolating men and women from their everyday contexts and instead portraying them within the space of their imaginary fabrication, the space of their mythical existence and thus confront what’s uncertain about human nature. Her work has been shown in different places in Europe, USA, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America and Africa, including international photography fairs such as: Basel Photo, Zona Maco Foto, Material Fair, San Francisco Photo, Arteba, Photo London, Festival Noorderlicht, Scope Miami among others. Mara has received the awards; POY Latam Iberoamerica Nuestra mirada de memoria e identidad and SAIF Revelation Photographer for The Cimarron and the fandango project, 3rd place in the PH Museum Women Photographers Grant with Iluikak, winner of the International Women in Photo Association 2020, she has been a beneficiary of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes México (FONCA 2018-2020) and in 2021 she received the Fomento a Proyectos Coinversiones Culturales (FPCC), financial support for the publication of her book iluikak. In 2019 she was artist-in-residence at Casa Wabi and participated as a tutor in 20 fotógrafos Atitlán. In 2022 National Geographic assigned her to photograph her article How Mexico revolutionized the science of antivenom. In February 2022, Kahl Editions published her first book El Cimarrón y su Fandango in Mexico, which was presented at Maco Fair and El Centro de la Imagen. In October of the same year Mara published her book iluikak along with KWY Ediciones and the support of Fomento a Proyectos Coinversiones Culturales (FPCC). At the end of 2022 she was selected to be a beneficiary of the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte, Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes México (FONCA 2022-2023 edition) with her project Maya LAN. Mara Sánchez-Renero’s work has been published and reviewed by international critics including, National Geographic, CNN, The New York Times, OAI, Zoom Magazine, Exit, Photography is art, Vision, Posi+tive Magazine, Aint-Bad, Photographic Museum of Humanity, Archive, and Dodho Magazine.