“It is a form of artistic freedom that lets me indulge in an alternative reality where I can be a virgin or a nymph-anything is possible.” We’ve met a few times before this at a friend’s house through mutual contacts in the Spanish music scene she’s “cute-ified” me with Facetune, to reflect my love of anime. “I use photo editing apps to modify my pictures because I see a photograph as a virtual drawing of myself,” she says, leaning back on her chair.
But quickly our chat turns serious, and we start speaking about why she invests so much in imagery, and how that feeds into her work. She rocks up in a baby pink unicorn onesie (“It only cost £15 from Primark!” she exclaims). FaceTuned pics and naked photographs, often accompanied by motivational phrases about yoga and spirituality, are scattered across her now-private Instagram grid – her account was deactivated the day before this gig, for the second time this year.Ī few days after the gig, we meet in a near empty café in east London. She says it’s her way of “praying to God”. Her debut album G.O.D, (which stands for Good Opening Drug) is a heady mix of meditative electronics and sexual vocal samples, due out in 2019. And when I say she’s committed, I mean it. You see, María is also a bit of a performance artist, who commits to an aesthetic revolving around a mix of sex, sexuality and spirituality.
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