Maria Jerez (Madrid, 1978). Her work is situated between choreography, cinema and visual arts. Beyond the interest in her first pieces for the theatrical and cinematographic conventions, and the implicit understanding of the spectator of the same, in her latest works she seeks to question this relationship by opening spaces of potentiality through encounters with that which we find strange and alien. Her most recent work insists on the performativity of the encounter as a space of transformation. In this process of transformation the other is housed in oneself, establishing blurred borders between the known and the unknown, the object and the subject, the animate and the inanimate. His work tries to escape from logocentric and anthropocentric logics, where human knowledge itself becomes vulnerable to other enigmatic and complex ecosystems.

Among these works are the live pieces "A Nublo" (2021) in collaboration with Edurne Rubio; "The Stain" (2019), "Yabba" (2017) and "Blob" (2016, within her curatorial project "What Is Third"). The exhibitions "The Stain" (2021), "Yabba" (2018) or the research project "Maria Goes to School" (2015-18), as well as the films "Maria Gaat Naar School" (2017) in collaboration with Edurne Rubio; "Puebla" (2020) and "The Boogie-Woogie Ghost", both in collaboration with Silvia Zayas.

Jerez combines the production of her artistic work with pedagogical, curatorial and editorial projects. She is the author of the book "INVENTORY - a choreography of things" (Ed. Fisuras 2014-2015), editor of "El cuaderno sin contenido" (BUDA Kunstencentrum 2016), and has translated with Alejandra Pombo the book "Spangberguianismo" by Marten Spangberg (Ed. Desiderata 2018) into Spanish.

His work is part of the collection of the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M, Madrid).