Born in Barcelona Maria Estabanell’s artwork explores the human body, the environment that surrounds her and the absence of quiet moments, all contained within the memory of her childhood growing up in a Mediterranean country. As a woman, her gaze can be nothing other than female, yearning for a deep presence of skin, bodies, obscured or even hidden, in the manifestation of her images. An allusion to love, the female shape, and nature.
Her approach to photography and film goes beyond the art of observation, focusing on the present and stepping into the world of intimacy as a witness. Some of her images act as a visual diary documenting herself and those closest to her. In her most recent projects, the London based visual artist observes the body as a sculpture in itself - capturing the skin, the flesh and the bone-. A part of her work feels a need to examine the fine line that separates the imagination from the reality. Always looking for what’s inside and outside of herself.
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EXHIBITIONS
2023 - ’Flesh’ series at Fluidra, Barcelona, Spain
2022 - TRANS LUCID (’Flesh’ series) at Galerie CROUS Paris, France
2021 - Up to the ground curated by Mireia Carbonell and Hao Long, Soho, London, UK
2021 - RALLY, MA Fine Art degree show, Chelsea College of Arts UAL, London, UK
2020 - Late at Tate online show, Tate Britain, London, UK
2020 - Charity Auction for Doctor Without Borders by Sotheby’s Institue of Arts, London, UK
2020 - Body (E)Motions curated by Alexis Sarfati and Claire di Felice (Sotheby’s Institue of Arts), The Cookhouse Gallery, London, UK
2019 - Un1t show, Triangle Space, Chelsea College of Arts UAL, London, UK
2019 - Free Range 2019, Photography Week (LIoP), Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2019 - Bureau de Change Film Screening, The Morgue, Chelsea Colleage of Arts, London, UK
EDUCATION
MA Fine Art - Chelsea College of Arts (UAL), London, UK
BA Film & TV - School of Communication and International Relations (URL), Barcelona, Spain
Professional Photography Course - London Institute of Photography, London, UK
Aesthetics and Art Theory Diploma - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
CONTACT
mariaestabanell@gmail.com
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Full portfolio is available upon request.