MARIA: Intraterrestria: Chorus

A vessel for MARIA's high femme queer ancestors. A magical shoe to stomp all adversaries and relay the power and beauty of the pretty guardians of the earth.

Product Information

2023

London Earth, Kanekelon, tulip petals, rose petals, jewelry chain, cardboard

About the Artist

MARIA is a London-based high femme Latine/American writer, performer, and artist making sculptural installations, performances, video and sound that eviscerate and reassemble the intersections of chronic illness, race, and notions of community by using herself/body as a conduit and muse. She combines natural and digital materials to engineer environments that create radical bodily connections between cyber and organic networks.

Through the excavation of her personal history and exploring the politicized intersections of her being, she creates installations and objects that evoke speculative realities while also speaking frankly about her lived experiences. Her materials range from working with 3D printing, video, sound, foraged organic materials, laser cut metal, wax, and combining them with materials such as earth, rose petals and gold leaf. MARIA creates installations relating to unique moments of illness, recovery, and how it is inseparable from larger experiences of racial marginalization while also being rooted in daily life.

MARIA was formerly based in Columbus, OH and while there, was a member of MINT Collective. Currently she has completed her MFA with Distinction from Goldsmiths (2022) and is the 2023 recipient of the Goldsmiths Award/Acme Early Career Award, Bursary, and Residency. Her work has been shown internationally with shows i know it’s the end & I am full of beauty (2021) at Beeler Gallery at CCAD and #SpeakingThroughMasks (2020) at ABCNoRio in NYC, Kenophobic Pantomimes at Below Grand (NYC) 2023, and Oracles and Algorithms at Copperfield Gallery (2022). She also has recently opened shows in 2024 at Kupfer Projects, Goodeye Studio Residencies and Studio Chapple (solo). Her work will be seen next at the MINOR ATTRACTIONS ART FAIR through Studio/Chapple, HOÓWEN at Dover Street, SAATCHI Gallery in January and at PILOT Gallery in Riga, Latvia.

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