Maria Paris Borda is a Colombian artist based in Amsterdam (NL) whose practice includes installation, writing, and artist books. Her work explores the materiality of language and its emotional and political dimensions. Through the intersection of text and art, she seeks to explore themes of place, love, and distance. 
Her practice explores how affective, political, and historical narratives have been shaped by the intersection of territory, and material culture. This exploration allows her to address the relationship between the personal and the collective, revealing the tensions and resonances that emerge in these overlaps. The poetics of her work arise precisely in these interstitial spaces. While her work begins with written language, Maria seeks to reach a point where language ceases to be descriptive, becoming able to speak about and through silence, movement, and the intangible.

Maria's work has been exhibited in Australia, China, Colombia, France, Germany, and The Netherlands. Her writing has recently been published in DeGids Magazine and Whisk Journal.

Since 2019 and in parallel to her artistic practice, she runs attempt press, a small-scale publishing house for books, editions and various projects with other artists and writers. 

Her practice is supported by the Mondriaan Fonds.