Clarita Maria is an interdisciplinary artist based in Kassel, Germany, who uses photography, film,
sound and form to challenge dominant historical narratives and explore the intersections of
transnational identity, home, memory and archives. She studied photography and media arts at the
Academy of Fine Arts, Leipzig.
A selection of her work was exhibited at LUMA Arles during Rencontres de la Photographie and at
the Rencontres de Bamako.
Clarita Maria's research critically examines existing archives and aims to imagine new ones, using
fabulation as a form of healing and deconstruction of the learned. She questions her position at the
intersection of Western influence and Zambian experience. A recent three-channel video and sound
installation titled 'ichibukisho' by Clarita Maria, which was exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig, explored how images and sounds can shape or reinforce memories and belonging.
For her Fellowship project, entitled 'neo rhodesia revisited', she aims to explore how natural elements act as memory keepers. Within this work, she critiques investment projects in the global south that threaten these environmental archives, further exploring themes of historical narrative, memory and transnational identity in the context of contemporary global dynamics.
