Mariana Viel II Sticker creating a play of dualities

creating a play of dualities between fragility and strength

Sculpture carved in plaster

almost ethereal figure is a conceptual sketch created for a film project that was ultimately cancelled

suspended between the human and the mechanical

This piece celebrates the extraordinary beauty of insects

Mariana Viel II Sticker creating a play of dualitiesThis child's face, carved with an almost archaic simplicity, conveys a quiet melancholy. The cracks and textures on its surface resemble weathered wood, as if salvaged from a shipwreck or unearthed from an ancient dream. The sleeping expressionalmost ritualisticsuggests silence, stillness, and endurance. It is a fragile yet powerful image, speaking of the passage of time, of lost childhood, and of the beauty that endures even in decay. Sculpture