CV
Ferney Manrique Aragón
Visual artist — Photography · Moving image · Installation (interactive / audiovisual)
Bogotá, Colombia — Lives and works in Asia
Analog and digital photography
Moving image
Interactive installations
Projection and spatial relations
Sound experimentation / noise
Working position
I work from a position of distrust toward images that feel overly resolved. I am not interested in cleanliness or in a closed form of beauty that eliminates friction. I am drawn instead to what remains unstable, incomplete, not fully fixed.
Distance is not a dogma; it is a situated decision. I work with distance and with proximity according to what each situation allows. The image does not seek to demonstrate anything: it remains as a trace of coexistence, camera and world present at the same time.
Perfection is a political capitulation.
Exhibitions (selection)
Desde fuera
Solo exhibition — MomboArt, Seville, Spain — 2026
Madrid Inquieto
International Photography Festival — Madrid, Spain — October 2025
Mexico International Photography Festival – FotoSeptiembre
Group exhibition — Mexico — 2024
Behind the Mask
The Ten Moir Gallery, International exhibition — Taiwan — 2024
The Ten Moir Gallery
International exhibition — Taiwan — 2023
The Holy Art
International exhibition — London, United Kingdom — 2022
The Holy Art
International exhibition — London, United Kingdom — 2021
ALDILA
International digital exhibition — Milan, Italy / Fuerteventura, Spain — 2021
Nagoya International Centre
Group exhibition — Nagoya, Japan — 2017
Education
- PhD Candidate – Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought — European Graduate School, Switzerland
- M.A. Continental Philosophy — Staffordshire University, United Kingdom
- M.A. Digital Media — London Metropolitan University, United Kingdom
- B.A. Graphic Design — National University of Colombia
Relevant experience (selection)
- University lecturer in graphic design — China · United Arab Emirates · Japan
- Direction and development of research–creation projects — Photography, image, installation, and sound