Maria Hassabi

Maria Hassabi (born 1973 in Cyprus) is an artist and choreographer working with live performance, installation, sculpture, photography and video. Since the early 2000s she has developed a unique practice involved with the relation of the live body to the still image and to the sculptural object, utilizing stillness and the velocity of deceleration as both technique and subject. Her photographic and video works use her live performances as a departure point, while the use of technology is employed to override the limitations that occur within the format of liveness and realness.