Sofía López Mañán
Bio
Multidisciplinary artist, photographer, filmmaker and researcher. Holds a degree in Visual Arts (UNA, 2007), studied documentary photography (ARGRA, 2009), cinematography (SICA, 2011) and naturalism (Escuela Argentina de Naturalistas, 2020), and is studying Anthrozoology (UBA). Exhibiting since 2007. Selected exhibitions: "Fuera del Tiempo #2 #3", Museo Casa del Poeta, San Luis (2026); "El libro de la naturaleza", Centro Cultural Rojas (2023); Unseen, Amsterdam (2023); Preus Museum, Sweden (2021); Galería Addaya, Mallorca (2015). Selected distinctions: "The Big Question" grant, National Geographic Society (2026); "Nuestra Mirada" award, POYLatam (2023); Joop Swart Masterclass, World Press Photo (2019); 2nd prize, Petrobras BA Photo (2014). National Geographic Explorer since 2021. Her documentary "La Odisea de Kamatsu" (2024), co-directed with Leo Liberman, was selected for BAFICI's International Competition. Her project "El libro de la naturaleza" was published by Sed Editorial (2026).
Statement
Sofía López Mañán's work stems from a question that refuses to be settled: what do we call nature? As a photographer, filmmaker and naturalist, she explores how nature is imagined, represented and produced, focusing on the point where the natural and the constructed reveal themselves as a forced dichotomy. This question runs through all her work, from honey as a form of poetic resistance to the bond between human and non-human beings, in which domestication, technology and biology blur. For her, art is a mode of inquiry: not recording a nature already given, but exposing the mechanisms through which we manufacture it and, with it, the way we understand our own existence.
Additional information
Medidas variables, hasta 120 × 180 cm
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
