Maria Zahle

Maria Zahle is a visual artist working with woven works, plant-based dyes, and poetry. Zahle’s practice balances between surrender and control, for example, when she paints directly onto the woven and not-yet-woven material during the weaving process, allowing surface and structure to merge. Zahle views art as both poetic and political. Through art, we can relate to one another with empathy and share in sorrow, beauty, and the brutally incomprehensible.

In Skagen, Maria was captivated by Marie Krøyer's formal language and used several of her details from Krøyer's House and Drachmann's house as inspiration in her work. Maria also experimented with using leftover yarn from the fishing industry in her woven works and had ongoing collaboration with the tinsmith.