Maria Izabella Lehtsaar

Maria Izabella Lehtsaar is a non-binary artist based in Tallinn, who works primarily with underrepresented queer experience and narrative, often playing with the boundaries between reality and fantasy. Their work often narrates of spaces and hidden symbols and encoded meanings in queer and lesbian material culture. Maria Izabella’s work catches the eye through softness, which loudly touches on subjects of gender performativity and construction that creates a binary and lonely world. In their work they blend pop culture aesthetics and sensitive monochrome graphics, combining them in practice with textiles, drawing and poetry. Their use of various mediums visually bend the familiarity with layered meaning