April 2023
’Maria Fernanda Cardoso: Fierce Maternity'
Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney

Despite the almost childlike sense of curiosity and wonder that Maria Fernanda Cardoso has brought to her work across her decades’ long career, her practice is grounded in an exhaustive research process encompassing the disciplines of science, history, literature and philosophy, and the close, often microscopic observation of her chosen source material. Along the way, what started as a spark transforms from interest into overwhelming obsession, with the artist feeling she needs to know absolutely everything about her subject before she can, through her art, make of it something new. Read