María Fernanda Cardoso's Maratus: Spiders of Paradise

Maria Fernanda Cardoso is a Colombian-Australian artist internationally renowned for using organic materials and both conventional and unconventional tools such as sculpture, photography, installation, video and performance to address the connections and tensions between society and the natural world. "Maratus: Spiders of Paradise" presents Cardoso’s ongoing photographic project about the minuscule, captivating Australian Maratus spider. It features large-scale and small-scale digital photographic portraits of various Maratus species, displaying their unique, brightly colored abdomens that are part of their elaborate mating rituals. Each photographic image is comprised of over 1000 individual photos, revealing the spiders’ colors and form in stunning detail.