Maria Ferrer

Statement

Maria Ferrer is an artist from Santiago, Chile currently living and working in Berlin, Germany. Her work reflects on human existence and the multi-temporalities that affect it, consciously and unconsciously. From the micro scale; meaning the biological and metaphysical inner processes, to the macro scale; such as the relationship with the non-human and with the interspecies ecosystems.

Her creative and constructive media are related to performance and installation. These provide the basis for an interdisciplinary work where the performative appears, either through transformations in the configuration of the piece focusing on a dynamic sensory experience, or a staging in which the body remains almost immobile, acquiring a sculptural character.

Using the body as a material, she seeks to develop interactive situations that put its symbolic and historical weight in tension, with the spectacular nature and unpredictability of the action itself in the here and now. Thus, time acquires a significant relevance in her proposals.

GlogauAIR Project

After presenting my last piece (Contra-ritual), I was left with many concerns and the desire to continue exploring music and sounds as an element for my proposals. I am interested in the infinite forms that sound vibrations can take to produce enveloping atmospheres. According to this, during my program as an artist in residence at GlogauAIR, I want to create an interdisciplinary project in which the media of performance, sculpture and sound converge to produce a sensory and immersive experience; A staging in which the performer play with the sound using the voice and a hybrid between sculpture/instrument, generating a material contrast in which the organic and the synthetic intersect with the body-object relationship. As for the sounds or musicalities that can result from this sculptural object, the idea is to formulate a kind of language in which actions, temporalities and sounds are constantly communicating.

Installation and Perfomance

CV Summary

• 2017-2021. Bachelor of Visual Arts. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.
• 2022-2023. Kaos Creative Space. Mediator. Mustakis Foundation, Santiago, Chile.
• 2022. Posthumous Painting. Guest artist. Metropolitan Gallery, Santiago, Chile.
• 2019. La Tirana Mobile Residence. Artist in residence. Tarapacá, Chile.
• 2019. Ascospora. Guest artist. Biennial of Media Arts, Santiago, Chile
• 2019. Delusional Serpent. Guest artist. National Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Chile
• 2019. PARALLEL-O: Performative Emergency. Guest artist. O Gallery, Santiago, Chile
• 2018. Dormancy. Guest artist. Fungi Museum, Santiago, Chile
• 2018. Dame Recyclage. Guest artist. Violeta Parra Museum, Santiago, Chile
• 2018. Macchina Gallery. Monitor. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

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