Maria Kapajeva is an Estonian artist who lives in London, UK. Her work was internationally exhibited including the most recent at RIBOCA Biennial in Latvia, also in Lithuania, USA, Colombia, Estonia, Poland, UK, Croatia and Belgium. Her video work was included in a few film festivals and recently she won the Runner-Up Award at FOKUS Video Art Festival in Denmark. Her first artist book was published with Kaunas Photography Gallery in June 2018. Kapajeva also teaches at the University for the Creative Arts (UK) and works for the research project 'Fast Forward: Women in Photography’. www.mariakapajeva.com

Maria Kapajeva will present the most recent bodies of work and will talk about her journey as an artist, in which her personal stories interweave with the issues she gets interested in. Her multicultural background forms her practice of mining a diverse spectrum of cultural identity and gender issues within historical and contemporary contexts. She works with stories and histories that grow out of the collection of vernacular photography that she finds in archives, old family albums, on the internet or in flea markets. Working with video, installation and object-based art she embeds found objects and images into unique pieces using various printing and stitching techniques.