Breve Gallery – 2017
AWSW is the new fragmentation of her latest project AS WITHOUT SO WITHIN, it is the abstraction and representation of its stills, an intrinsic part of the film itself. To build a piece off another piece, can be read in parallel to her interest towards parasitic organisms, or as the notion of internal resonances within an artistic practice or just simply as an economic act. Manuela identifies these exercises as formal approaches to represent the gaze, its multiplicity and its complex relationship with the object.
In her cosmology, without certainties or statements, the space occupied by a subject and an object is deployable, exponential, and as a consequence, its temporality: multiple – hence the presence in her work of a thought in motion, abstract and at times troubled.
AS WITHOUT SO WITHIN was presented at: 20th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_VideoBrasil (17), Toronto IFF (16), Winnipeg WNDX – Best International Short (16), 25fps F Zagreb – Grand Prix (16), IFF Rotterdam – Tiger Shorts (17), New Directions MoMa + FSLC (17), Cineteca Nacional CDMX (17), Chicago UFF (16), Singapore IFA (), Curtas Vila Do Conde (17), EXiS F Seoul (17), Portland IFF (16), FIC Morelia (17), Galería Breve (16), Milwaukee UFF (16), L’Âge d’Or Prize at L’Âge d’Or Film Festival (17), FilMADRID (16), among others.