María Fernanda Cardoso

[1][2] Her contemporary art references many types of ready-made material, including plastic, trash, plants, dried and living animals, bones and styrofoam.

[4] The circus toured internationally at venues including the Sydney Opera House, the Centre Pompidou, the Arts Festival Atlanta, the Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia), and the San Francisco Exploratorium.

This work, including a series of videos made in collaboration with Ross Rudesch Harley, is now part of Tate Modern's permanent collection.

[7] She had a solo exhibition in 2011 at Melbourne's Arc One gallery centered on the genitalia of male insects entitled "It's not size that matters, it is shape".

[9] Because of the size of the fleas, she collaborated with Ross Rudesch Harley to add audio and video for a larger projection.

"Cementerio—Vertical Garden" is a series of unique installation pieces made of artificial flowers placed as if growing horizontally from the wall over funerary stones outlined in pencil.

"Dancing Frogs" (1990), made with dried frogs