Maria Esthela is a Honduran-Canadian artist currently based in the unceded territory of Tkaronto (Toronto).
She has exhibited her work in Canada and abroad and is represented by Duran Contemporary in Montreal.
Her practice investigates the adaptation and evolution of consciousness. She examines how identity, memory, the bodymind, and spacetime adapt through a diffractive shaping of material and meaning, informed by liminality and transparency. Her personal lens of neuro-cultural translation—developed through recurrent geographic and linguistic metamorphosis—is used to illuminate a universal truth for communal transformation: vulnerability is the catalyst for collective wonder and connection.
She engages with sculpture, installation, and drawing in a non-linear exploration of emergence, immanence, paradox and entanglement —key concepts she locates within the natural world-cosmos continuum.
Guided by research and meditation, her practice is handmade, methodical and site-responsive. Her process is intuitive, discursive, repetitive and tactile, following the movement of thought as it expands and multiplies, revealing elusive patterns and perspectives that playfully gesture toward the ineffable ecstasy that entangles with the ordinary.
Working with materials that coincide in their optical properties, she interprets the language of light by arranging them into coded rhythms. This serves as a poetic proposal on the recursive nature of spacetime and the interagency of energymatter.
The abstract language she has developed seeks to evoke thoughtful lightness and emotional gravitas, drawing lines of inquiry and points of reflection that trace and transcend the realm of reason. Ultimately, her work suspends and diffracts linear thought, elevating our attention to what lies between and beyond—the site of liminality and the reimagining of being.
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