María Sánchez

Maria Sanchez - Next to Me

Technique: Hand embroidery

Artist Biography: María Sánchez is a Spanish artist whose work focuses on the exploration of memory, identity and personal narrative through photography and video. Born in 1988, she graduated in Fine Arts from the University of Salamanca in 2010 and has since exhibited her work in numerous galleries and contemporary art festivals both in Spain and abroad.In her artistic practice, María Sánchez uses photography as a tool to explore her own memory and that of those around her. Through her images, the artist reflects on the construction of personal and collective identity, using photography as a means to explore the past and the present. Her works are composed of thematic series that often revolve around the idea of family, home and intimacy.One of the most outstanding characteristics of María Sánchez's work is her ability to combine photography with other disciplines, such as video and installation, creating works that invite the viewer to immerse themselves in intimate and often emotional worlds. In her series "La Casa", for example, the artist uses photography, video and installation to explore her own family history, creating a space in which everyday objects become metaphors for memory and identity.In short, María Sánchez is a contemporary Spanish artist who uses photography, video and installation to explore memory, identity and personal narrative. Through her work, the artist invites the viewer to reflect on her own relationship with the past and the present, creating a space of intimacy and reflection that becomes a reflection of the complexity of the human experience.

 

INVENTED LANDSCAPES Invented landscapes is a project of artistic expression that through hand embroidery intends to express through natural elements taken out of context. Each of them, leaves, flowers or seeds, have been collected from the ground, they are not perfect, they have the marks of their own history. I play with the idea that what is small, what makes up a whole, is as important or more important than what it belongs to or is part of. Each of these elements makes its existence possible. For me, this idea represents the metaphor with which to talk about life, how society, the world in which we live and the human being are united beyond mere coexistence. Each being is a small detail of the global life, and each detail, whether beautiful or not, seems to go unnoticed far from the whole to which it belongs and of which it is an essential part. I want to focus on the details, on the nuances that make the space that surrounds us more real, that fill an action with value, that define a person. Invented landscapes collects small natural elements and gives them the relevance of the whole to build trees, horizons, land, rain, stars or entire worlds, to express that we are all part of that whole called universe and that this would not be such without each element that makes it up. Maria Sanchez