olimafer@gmail.com
Várvara-Tazelaar
Maria Fernanda Olivera
olimafer@gmail.com
Maria creates depictions of the fragility of memory. Like a landscape shaped by layers of earth, eroded over time and given new shape; where figures emerge or are buried with the shifting layers; her work explores the fragile state of memory - it’s susceptibility to decay, and the layering of impressions and time that continually merge into an uncertain whole, a delicate identity, something new … but only for now.
Material is central to her work. Through natural and found substances, clay, volcanic rock, wax, pigment, cement,mirrors she searches for the ways light moves across surfaces, the way matter holds time. Compositions are never fully finished: simultaneously being buried and excavated, their meaning shifting with the eye of the beholder. The work exists at a threshold between personal and collective, between erosion and accumulation, between what is remembered and what is lost.
As a self-taught artist, her practice has been built entirely from within: shaped by lived experience, material curiosity, and an instinct for the poetic rather than the academic. Nothing was taught to her; everything in it is found.
Ard Artisans
Group Recidency
Fez, MA – 2024
Casa Snowapple
Group Recidency
AI AI AI
CDMX, MX – 2023
Taller de Papel
Group Recidency
Oaxaca, MX – 2012
ROSA SPRING SHOW
Amsterdam, NL
Group Exhibition
30 – 31 May, 2026
Paños Mojados
Group Exhibition,
Dream Unit
June, 2023
Amsterdam, NL
AI AI AI
Group Exhibition
Casa Snowapple
CDMX, MX – 2023
AIGA 50 Books | 50 Covers
Amsterdam, NL – 2023
Book Profane Verlichting
Mooiste Boekomslag
Amsterdam, NL – 2019
Book Salomons OordelAIGA
La raíz del hombre
Premio Quorum
Museo Franz Mayer – 2012
(in collaboration with artist Alejandro Magallanes and a team of designers from Centro)