artist´s statement

A natural response to pain is to turn a blind eye and avoid confronting it. We often sweep it under the rug, hoping time will quietly erase it. But when the carpet is our own skin, the pain doesn’t vanish, it festers, filling the room with rot. Like stitching torn skin, as painful as it may be, tending to our wounds is the only way to truly heal.

Born in Lebanon in 1999, Maria has spent the last nine years in Barcelona, where she transitioned from graphic design to fully embrace illustration and painting. Her practice is distinguished by vibrant, intense colors and fluid, often surreal compositions that map her personal journey. Whether working on traditional or digital canvases, her art channels unrestrained emotional expression and deep inner exploration, engaging in dialogue with the world around her.

Maria’s work navigates grief, pain, and transformation, addressing transgenerational trauma and the complex experience of belonging, both physical and emotional. Through symbolic and abstract narratives, she seeks to break inherited patterns and foster healing through the wound. As a self-taught artist, she works fluidly across digital and analog media. Her work is a visual form of mourning, shedding and stitching the skin in order to move forward and live.