Maria Oliveira

From a poetic and symbolic perspective, her work moves between the visible and the hidden. The reality, the memory, and the imagination.

Born and raised in Ponte de Lima and living in Porto.

Through photography she has been working on umbilical places, physical and mental. She is interested in its mutation, the close relationship between human and the remaining nature, including people, animals, the cycles of the seasons and how everything communicates, is related and exists together. From a poetic and symbolic perspective, her work moves between the visible and the hidden. The reality, the memory, and the imagination.

She exhibits regularly since 2011 in Portugal and abroad. In 2023, she integrates the Municipal Art Collection of Porto. In 2022, she participates in the exhibition "NATURE FUTURE - Young European photography", organized by the French Presidency of the EU Council, in Prague and Berlin. With the series ‘To Wander the Sea’, she integrates an itinerant collective exhibition during 2021. In 2019, she participates in the first Porto Photography Biennial.

Between 2016 and 2017, she is resident artist at ‘Ci.clo - Plataforma de Fotografia’ where she develops the project 'Saving fire for darker days’, which integrates an exhibition shown, among others, at ‘Centro Português de Fotografia’, in Porto, Portugal; Fotofestiwal, in Lodz, Poland and School of Visual Arts, in New York, U.S.A. In 2014, she exhibits at FotoRio Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and in 2011 at ‘Casa de Portugal’, in Macau. In 2019, she was the winner of the ‘FNAC New Talents award’ and ‘Scopio Magazine International Photobook Contest’.