memory, trauma and embodied transformation

Maria Theresa Barbist is an interdisciplinary artist based in Miami, working across painting, sculpture, video, and performance. Her practice explores trauma, memory, and embodied transformation. Her current body of work, Der Grund auf dem ich stehe, shown in the 2026 Florida Prize in Contemporary Art at the Orlando Museum of Art, carries painted tarp through specific places, a backyard, a mountaintop, a childhood home, translating memory and belonging into material and performance. Video still, filmed by the artist