Maria Tehia

maria@tehia.com

Bio

She got her first camera when she was five, maybe six. Her parents were divorcing then, and very soon, she moved from home. She never liked the camera, instead devoured every book she could get her hands on. It was decided that she should study literature. But she took a small job in a local newspaper of southern Provence in order to help her grandparents, retired by now, to meet ends. She was asked to take photos of irrelevant, dull stories, and promised that one day she will be allowed to write. Out of boredom she made the bleak stories colorful and appealing and that did not escape the attention of her boss. He pushed her towards studying photography.
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Art Statement

Maria’s art practice consists of an exploration of urban spaces in fusion with human environments. She uses both analog and digital techniques. Very often she focuses on texture and abstract color compositions. She creates also intermedial artwork – analog photos are used for digital modifying process to create totally new images. Discreet colors, surface structures and textures inspired by environment and nature are producing completely new abstract compositions or restructured paintings. She strives to blur the lines between abstraction and figuration, has a great fascination for evolution, new genres, transformations, and multi-sensual perception that inspires her to create a new world of her own.
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