Maria Paris Borda is a Colombian artist currently living in Amsterdam. She works with text and site-specific interventions to question how spatial and linguistic systems shape our perception of the world and our place in it. Rather than singular objects, she assembles constellations of industrial materials, text, and lighting that register subtle ruptures of reality: the slip of a mistranslated word, the moment where sunset light enters a room, the sudden shimmer of a surface.
Her practice extends the legacy of Latin American Conceptualism and its relation to poetry, histories of migration, and linguistic fracture, reframing these concerns through feminist questions of visibility and intimacy. Through repetition and distillation, she draws attention to the moments where languages, histories, and materials fail to fully align.
A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, she also obtained an MFA in the Approaching Language Department at the Sandberg Instituut. Her work has been exhibited in the Oude Kerk (NL), Het HEM (NL), Paris Photo (FR), among others. In 2024, she was shortlisted for the Colombian National Prize for Emerging Artists. Since 2021, Maria has been co-founder and editor of attempt press, a Rotterdam-based small-scale publishing house focused on books, editions, and collaborative projects with other artists and writers.
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* Full portfolio available on request at: mariaparisborda@gmail.com