A young woman is sitting among debris, ruins, small conventional objects, animal bones. Her hands and feet kneaded, rapt and suspended in the middle of a scene where everything looks real, true, but equally fictitious and apparent. We suspect that there is a story, woven from symbols. If that was the truth, we could somehow try to understand the key of the tale. But there are numerous hints, something makes us believe that there are numerous prospects and diverging, a thousand likely keys, which means that none of them is fully true. However, we are sure that this picture tells us the truth in a peculiar way, allusive, even if it seems to welcome the call of the world. This figure talks about truth, which is one, inseparable, and can’t mirror itself. Who wants to meet him, must become falsehood.

(Antonio Capaccio)

Maria Semmer was born in Rothenburg ob der Tauber (Germany) in 1979. She started at a young age with photography and painting. She studied graphic design at Georg Simon Ohm FH in Nuremberg. In 2003 she works in Berlin as the assistant of the artist Younis All Azzawy. In the following year she studies at the art and design academy in Saint Petersburg. From 2007 to 2011 she lives in Rome where makes 3 photography projects: “Dreamers”, “Dreamers II” and “The House of Tomorrow”. During this period, she travels frequently and mostly to Germany. In 2012 she comes back to Rothenburg ob der Tauber. Her current project “The Transition” was born in the spaces of a historical ruin in her hometown. Her artworks are presented in both public and private collections in Germany, Italy and other countries.

Personal Showcases: 2012 'Sanctuary' Gallerati Gallery, Rome / 'Crepuscular' Studio Abate, Rome / 'Crepuscular' MU.SP.A.C. Experimental Museum of Contemporary Art, L'Aquila / 2009 'Dreamers' Hybrida contemporary gallery/ 2007 'photosession' Stamperia del Tevere, Rome / 'heimelig' Villa Mirafiori, Rome / 2006 'heimelig' Kulturbrauhaus, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany.