María V•••

About

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Maria is based in Caracas and London. Maria holds an Architecture Degree from Universidad Simón Bolívar in Venezuela and a Master in Fine Art with Distinction from Kingston University in London. Her ongoing work and research is focused on how language shapes and creates atmospheres, worlds and realities through the typographic effect of fonts made of geometric figures and abstractions. Maria intertwines art, typography design, space, geometry, language, dance and architecture, when creating compositions with her letters. She investigates letters as particles, atoms, symbols, glyphs, and/or as objects. Letters becoming events that embody potential movement or contain energy. Letters as mass, air, music and/or sound that is meant to be listened with the eyes and that could be related to kinetic art and cosmic energies, interweaving notions of energy, matter and language. She explores how language, letters, and words interfere with our senses and perception of reality, and how their form and composition, can work in harmony with their meaning when explored in the form of images, animations, installations, text spatialization, and book design. Maria questions whether the freedom of language could become infinite when, by combining language with the abstract, the letter acquires the characteristics of the point in painting: inner force and sound. Through these new possibilities and by creating multiple realities, the artist questions language as the material of the human intellect.