01 / CROSSWINDVOLCANIC FIELD, 2024120 FILM
PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDY
36° 02' N / 14° 14' W
VOLUME I
FRAME 01 / 04
NEW SERIES BY Mara Vela
Human Weather
Four studies of the body as landscape.
Made between storms, 2024—2026.
00 / PROLOGUE
I photograph the instant before a feeling learns its name.
Human Weather is a record of pressure: fabric caught in crosswind, breath against glass, a figure dwarfed by its own horizon. Nothing here is posed to reassure you.
A STUDY IN FOUR MOVEMENTS
WIND / FEVER / WEIGHT / THAW
Contact
with pressure
SELECT A FRAME
TO BREAK THE SEAL
THE AIR MOVED FIRST.
THE BODY FOLLOWED.
02 / FEVER GLASSMADRID, 2025PUSHED +2
03 / THE WEIGHT OF SKYSPILLWAY, 20254 × 5 NEGATIVE
SCALE IS A KIND OF
EMOTIONAL VIOLENCE.
04 / THAWSTUDIO, 20268 SEC EXPOSURE
NO BEAUTY
WITHOUT
FRICTION.
The film
keeps breathing.
UNPUBLISHED CROPS / DUST / CONTACT / ACCIDENT
03 / THE ARTIST
Against the
polished lie.
MARA VELA / SELF-PORTRAIT / 2026
Mara Vela is a Madrid-based photographic artist working between portraiture, performance, and hostile landscapes. Her images ask how much pressure a body can hold before it becomes weather.
Working primarily with medium-format film, Vela welcomes chemical errors, interrupted gestures, and the unruly evidence of touch.
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- 2026Unstable GroundParis
- 2025After the TemperatureMadrid
- 2025New Visions / FoamAmsterdam
- 2024Emerging Image PrizeLondon