Performing for the camera, Maria's practice exists between the relationship of performance and photography. She guise's herself as outlandish characters. Emerging from this is a tension between the truth and falsity behind the making of an image and the documentation of a private performance.

 

She is interested in the idea that we have the capacity to shape our own identity, particularly through our dependence on technology. Her work is about the subjected image we see of ourselves, and that illustrates the conflicting nature of a dual relationship. As she plays the characters, themes of the double manifest and reflect the idea of unity and division between the character and artist at the same time.