Maria Kapajeva
Estonia, United Kingdom (citizenship)
research interests: feminism, feminist art, decoloniality, Decolonizing methodologies, decolonial, positionality, identity, border, borders, Border Territories, bordelands, autotheory, autoethnography, archive, family archives
affiliation: Estonian Academy of Arts
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Maria Kapajeva is an artist who works between the UK and Estonia. Through her artistic practice, Kapajeva looks at the identity questions of peoples being in-between or in-transition, often bringing peripheral stories to the visible centre. Kapajeva practice is multidisciplinary: she works with found and vernacular photographic images, video installations, textile and embroidery and participatory practices.
Since 2013 Kapajeva works as a Project Manager at Fast Forward: Women in Photography (UCA, UK). Currently Kapajeva develops a practice-based PhD at Estonian Academy of Arts and runs her artist studio Circle in Cube in Tallinn as a sharing space for various art and activism activities. www.mariakapajeva.com