- Mariana Passos is a contemporary art conservator with a primary research focus on modern materials, the conservator's role in this field, and the conservation of new media, particularly installation artworks. Her research addresses one of the key challenges in conservation today: how to preserve artworks that, by their nature, change. She is particularly interested in the premise of the conservator as an active manager of change, and as part of this approach, she investigates how documentation plays a central role in these processes, and how change itself can be managed as part of an artwork’s life cycle. She developed her dissertation on the conservation of analogue video installations, specifically "Kiss the Girls: Make Them Cry", by Dara Birnbaum (2024), in collaboration with Serralves Foundation. Currently, she is part of the InBloom research, investigating the impact of blooming on polyurethane-coated fabrics to support conservation decisions in fashion and design collections (2023.11375.PEX).
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