What is the closest thing to love? A series exploring the nuances of love—intimate, honest and quietly cinematic.

Flame, Womb, Tomb, Instinct, analogue exposures made in Norway and Colorado.

CHESEREX COURANT (a forest stream), analogue exposures of winter melting off La Dôle, nearTrélex, Switzerland, during an artistic residency.

Bones Bared, analogue exposures made in Colorado 2019.

Sottocorrente (seppia), analogue image, digitally scanned and manipulated in Oslo, Norway, 2019. Sottocorrente is typically is used in clinical psychotherapy, and in this exposure realized as a way to look at the ideas in the surface of image based cultures.

Chasmal (חשמל), digital images made during summer in Oslo, Norway, 2018. While Chasmal can imply a chasm, ( the spaces between a signifier and that which it refers to ) can be wide and deep. This work refers to an amber-like gleam of electricity, perceivable by synesthetic vision.

Cosmic Grottos, analogue images exposed in Norway. The image on left was exposed in 2018 at Blaafargeværket while researching cobalt, mining and geology for Aesthetic Resonances. The image on right was exposed in Trondheim 2021 while continuing Aesthetic Resonances research. 1 of 1 artist proofs were made and exhibited. The prints were lost.

Graal, Ascension, Vin, analogue exposures made atop Pike's Peak in 2016, artist proofs exhibited at CYAN Gallery in Oslo Norway and collected by a Dutch curator in 2023. Each is a 1 of 1. The work explores spiritual themes of Christianity, Paganism, and subjective-objective themes in abstraction.

Depth Perception, images made in Oslo Norway, 2016. Images inspired La Mer video for performance at the Rockheim Museum in Trondheim, Norway in 2022.

Over a Streambed a Body Formed in the Light Refracted in Waves, analogue image exposed along the Akerselva river in Oslo, Norway 2018, scanned and artist proofs in various sizes were made for exhibitions in 2018, 2019, 2023. Printed on silk in Italy in 2025. Variations and sizes vary. Each work is 1 of 1. Memories in the Water, Emilio Del Giudice, researcher…

An Apophatic Way of Knowing Water, Analogue Image 2018, Printed on Silk 2025.

Benvenuto al sud

Sunday Morning, 2019, 06:04 minutes, single channel video for projection. Sunday Morning was a show I would wake up to make sure to catch their "moment in nature," which always seemed more important than any of the world news. As many of my public projects are odes of love to my childhood rituals, Sunday Morning, evokes the ritual of morning walk and virtues of gå sakte, or to go slowly, in the times where speed is somehow perceived as more adept.

FEEL THE BURN | Kamikaze, 28 July 2019, 4654 W. Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, California, 90016, USA, included two miniature monoliths.

Torino, 2020, 07:17 minutes, single channel video for projection. A ride across rural Midwest landscapes in American muscle car. Filmed in Illinois, during the COVID-19 lockdown. This video and those found on this website are included in the Videokunstarkivet, in Oslo, Norway. Contact: mariammanart@icloud.com to arrange for exhibitions or screenings of the film. (The video here is presented at low-resolution).

Være Lief, 2020, 4:47 single channel video, on the nature of belief and the meaning of beloved. This video and those found on this website are included in the Videokunstarkivet, in Oslo, Norway. Contact: mariammanart@icloud.com to arrange for exhibitions or screenings of the film.

Ferry into Harbor, 2019, single channel video for projection.

The Open Studio Via dell’anguilla 35r 50122, Firenze FI theopenstudiofirenze@gmail.com @theopenstudio_firenze 344 105 3133 The Open Studio is an art studio open to the public conceived as a space for experimenting and re-signifying artworks. Periodically, we will invite artists and curators to create exhibitions and exchange creative ideas. DilosDeliaArtemis, Marcela Gottardo, and Mari Amman. 2023 October 04th - November 30th.

UNDULATION, film exposed 2014, diptych print archival ink on matte paper 2014, 104 x 85 cm (40.9 x 33.4 in), proposed for glass etching. Accumulated layers of frozen water exposed on film and arranged into a formal diptych. The work is one in the ongoing series: Monoliths. The artwork can be printed on various art papers, etched in glass, sublimation printed on textile or woven in fabric.

LEVETIDEN & PELLUCID, 2017, photography, I am moving all day and not moving at all. I am like the moon underneath the waves that ever go rolling. - Anonymous. The works are based on the notion our predetermined time is build within us and mirrored in our surroundings.

MONOLITHIC RESEARCH Decades long curiosity with the monolith as a symbol, object, animistic, pragmatic and esoteric functions, the comment on the Montparnasse structure in Paris summarized what the monolith is: the disappearance of the self through observation of all that surrounds. "The observation deck of Tour Maine-Montparnasse enjoys the most beautiful view in all of Paris because it is the only place from which the tower itself cannot be seen." In other words, upon and within existence, we have a view out that forgets that we are. - 2023