Mario Santanilla’s Still Life moves across personal anecdotes, history, cultural memory and scientific curiosities, taking readers on a virtual journey through an eclectic range of sights and stories. From the Apollo moon landing and films of Chris Marker to NASA’s 3D archive, Toy Story and the first YouTube video, the book is at once factual and speculative, poetic and analytical—exploring how we see, understand and represent the world around us.
Mario Santanilla(born 1991 in Bogotá) is Colombian artist. His practice explores the optics of being. Guided by research on architecture, light-based technologies, and storytelling, he explores how these devices condition behavior and represent social realities. Santanilla has participated in "March Project" at Sharjah Art Foundation (Sharjah, 2019), "Home Workspace Programme" at Ashkal Alwan (Beirut, 2017–2018), and "Escuela Flora" at Flora ars+natura (Bogotá, 2016). He holds a BFA from the Jorge Tadeo Lozano University, Bogotá (2015).
