Fer Zannol was naturally introduced to photography through a passion for art that runs in the family. She actively explores everyday life as an artistic terrain full of secrets. The everyday world appears as a manifestation of what is hidden, invisible to the hasty existence of everyday life.

Through a critical and attentive lens, Fer opens up an almost infinite set of ways of perceiving reality. She utilizes her own visual lexicon to reveal secrets, beliefs and taboos. Through a subtle use of the chiaroscuro technique, she allows us to access the mystery of the intimate and hermetically preserved: the "unsaid", "the unnameable".

The viewer is immersed in a world where the limits of what is real versus imaginary are blurred in a disturbing way. It is an invitation to a path of introspection and comprehension of the banal or simply ordinary. A reserved knowledge is enabled, exclusive of those beings in search of the truth.

The untold is presented as silence that protects, a mystery that is deconstructed through visual imagery. Family secrets, presence in absences and nostalgia for a world that vanishes in the past time but is updated in the present identity of our daily life.

Portfolio HONORS This artwork is, at its core, an intimate and silent conversation between mother and daughter, a visual testimony of what endures and what inevitably slips away. Sculptures composed of rescued objects serve as bridges between past and present, transforming grief into a shared act of creation and contemplation.

My mother, Adriana, was a renowned sculptor who lived surrounded by objects (tools, curiosities, fragments) through which she built a world uniquely her own. Today, these remnants, salvaged from her studio and reshaped into new forms, carry the echoes of a vibrant life. They become an emotional topography that hovers between absence and memory.

Each sculpture is a fragment of the emotional puzzle she left behind, a collection that defies disappearance through new visual and narrative configurations. In an act of love and transformation, I use the language of photography to capture these ephemeral works, stripping them of their utilitarian purposes and imbuing them with a symbolism that transcends the material. These are visual reliquaries, where each object speaks: everyday utensils and forgotten curiosities that once stood silently in her presence now gather, like offerings, on the altar of memory.

The creative process behind this series not only honors my mother’s life and creative spirit but allows me to inhabit grief in a tangible and poetic way. By reconstructing and framing these objects, I reflect on the impossibility of separating a person from the things they touched, shaped, and loved.

This work evokes the dual nature of memory and forgetting, a space where our attachment to material things becomes both an act of resistance against absence and, paradoxically, a means of release.

Fer Zannol, was born in 1966, Bs As Argentina.
She is a visual artist, architect by profession and photographer by passion.
She is passionate about investigating the intimacy and concealment of secrecy.
She seeks to capture feelings and emotions coagulated in time, paralyzed in their flow, that define our identity.
she works with stories full of mystery, where imagination and reality become blurred in a disturbing way.

"Some pieces from this series have been acquired by prestigious collections, including the Pembrooke collection at Fidelity in Boston and the Ricardo Roa collection in Chile." This artwork is, at its core, an intimate and silent conversation between mother and daughter, a visual testimony of what endures and what inevitably slips away. Sculptures composed of rescued objects serve as bridges between past and present, transforming grief into a shared act of creation and contemplation.

HER mother, Adriana, was a renowned sculptor who lived surrounded by objects (tools, curiosities, fragments) through which she built a world uniquely her own. Today, these remnants, salvaged from her studio and reshaped into new forms, carry the echoes of a vibrant life. They become an emotional topography that hovers between absence and memory.

Each sculpture is a fragment of the emotional puzzle she left behind, a collection that defies disappearance through new visual and narrative configurations. In an act of love and transformation, I use the language of photography to capture these ephemeral works, stripping them of their utilitarian purposes and imbuing them with a symbolism that transcends the material. These are visual reliquaries, where each object speaks: everyday utensils and forgotten curiosities that once stood silently in her presence now gather, like offerings, on the altar of memory.

The creative process behind this series not only honors her mother’s life and creative spirit but allows me to inhabit grief in a tangible and poetic way. By reconstructing and framing these objects, I reflect on the impossibility of separating a person from the things they touched, shaped, and loved. This work evokes the dual nature of memory and forgetting, a space where our attachment to material things becomes both an act of resistance against absence and, paradoxically, a means of release.

Web: www.ferzannolph.com
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