Contact: mariaesolla@gmail.com
BODY NOSTALGIA
BODY NOSTALGIA
Body Nostalgia is a collaborative project with Atypical that explores the power of scent to evoke memory in the body. Bringing together artists from different disciplines, the work investigates how olfactory experiences can shape movement and connection. Through four distinct aromas, the project examines how scent can generate new forms, gestures, and angles within the body.
SEDIMENTO
SEDIMENTO
Sedimento is a photographic project that explores the symbiotic yet conflictive relationship between humans and the Argentine Delta, seen as spaces of memory, transformation, and healing.
Through interaction with mud, water, and sedimentary islands, the work reflects on the traces humans leave in nature and those the environment imprints on us—bodies and landscapes entwined in acts of reconciliation.
Each image captures the tension between erosion and regeneration, accumulation and renewal, proposing the Delta as both wound and possibility of healing, where human bodies too become sediment: shaped by time, marked by place, and carriers of memory.
BENDING NARRATIVES
BENDING NARRATIVES
Australia, 2025
Bodies bend, dissolve, and merge with the landscape, questioning the limits of both form and flesh. The work opens a space of experimentation where shapes are dismantled and reassembled, suggesting new ways of inhabiting and narrating the environment through vulnerability, openness, and transformation.
Maria Eugenia Solla (b. 1986, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine visual artist and documentary
photographer whose practice explores the relationship between the body, the
environment, and narrative. Trained as a Fashion Designer at the University of Buenos
Aires, she also studied at the University of São Paulo (History of Photography and Digital
Photography) and completed a postgraduate degree in the Sociology of Design (UBA,
2013). Her research investigates how bodies communicate their stories through image
and space.
Her photographic education includes training with Juan Travnik, Alberto Goldenstein, and
Andrea Chame (UBA, 2016), where she developed her first visual project on transgender
subjects. Further studies include Politics of the Pose (CIA, 2016) and Anthropology of the
Image (UNA, 2019).
For more than twelve years, she has worked as a freelance photographer for Argentine
fashion and design brands, while developing independent documentary projects. At SUB
Cooperativa she created Sedimento, a performance and nature-based series nominated
for the LOBA Leica Award (2025). In 2021, she received a Mecenazgo grant for Cuerpa, a
platform promoting women and gender-diverse documentary photographers, which
resulted in an exhibition and website.
Her work has been recognised with Second Prize in Banco Ciudad’s Gente de mi Ciudad
competition, publication in Revista Dislexia, and participation in the Migra Art Book Fair.
She continues to create projects merging photography, performance, and landscape,
seeking new ways to translate embodied experience into visual narratives that resonate
locally and internationally.
Education & Training
• Postgraduate in Sociology of Design, University of Buenos Aires, 2013
• Bachelor in Fashion Design, University of Buenos Aires, 2012
• Academic Exchange, University of São Paulo (History of Photography & Digital
Photography), 2011
• Diploma in Photography, Universidad Nacional de San Martín (UNSAM), 201
• Workshops & Seminars: Juan Travnik, Alberto Goldenstein, Andrea Chame, CIA, UNA
Academic & Professional Experience
• 2020–2022 – Lecturer, Fashion Design Programme, University of Buenos Aires
• 2014–present – Freelance Photographer for fashion and design brands in Argentina
Selected Artistic Projects
• Sedimento (2019–2025) – Performance and landscape-based photographic series.
Nominated for LOBA Leica Award (2025); published in Revista Dislexia (2023).
• Cuerpa (2021) – Mecenazgo-funded platform amplifying women and gender-diverse
documentary photographers. Exhibition + website.
• Migra Art Book Fair (2018) – Work exhibited and sold, Buenos Aires.
Exhibitions
• Cuerpa Exhibition – Buenos Aires, 2021
• Migra Art Book Fair – Buenos Aires, 2018
Awards & Recognition
• LOBA Leica Award Nomination – Sedimento, 2025
• Mecenazgo Grant Award – Cuerpa, 2021
• Second Prize – Gente de mi Ciudad, Banco Ciudad, 2014
Publications & Media
• Revista Dislexia – Feature on Sedimento, 2023
• Restos del Carnaval fanzine – Selected for Fiesta Latina, The Photographer’s Gallery,
2019
• Additional press and online coverage across art and photography platforms
Skills & Languages
• Artistic Photography: documentary, performance, nature-based
• Academic Research: visual arts and sociology of design
• Languages: Spanish (native), English (fluent), Portuguese (fluent)