Bio

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Bio 🍓

An art studio with colorful origami butterflies decorating the wall, several paintings, art supplies, and a person working on an artwork.

BIO / maría alcantar

Mexico/Hungary-based painter. Small fragments build large memories. landscape meets portals with intruders that somehow feel at home.

Painting of a lively city square with a carousel and people walking. A building with an arch and the sign 'Pensione' can be seen in the background.
Painting of a large pink sun against a blue sky with white clouds.

Operating between Hungary and Mexico, my practice is defined by seriality building cohesive visual worlds from accumulated smaller works. Drawing from Mexican cultural archives and a deep engagement with landscape painting, I introduce portal motifs that fracture spatial logic. These portals are not mere doorways, but experimental forms that warp perspective, making room for a liquid, almost extra-terrestrial intrusion. I aim for this otherness to feel both invasive and inevitable, as if the canvas always anticipated this strange, fluid inhabitant.