Maite de Orbe is a Spanish, London-based artist working with photography, performance and moving image. Their practice is focused on the complexity of identity making, touching on otherness and belonging. Working collaboratively with dissident communities, de Orbe’s practice uses a documentary visual language at first that then lures into fantasy and world making to tell stories of real life through emotional textures, portraits and landscapes. As they examine rituals of contemporary culture, their work is equally raw and soft, deeply connected and fascinated with blending high vs low culture, intimacy and the sublime. In 2024, De Orbe started creating MOMOSTAR, an opaque character exploring violence, tenderness, gender, belief systems, mythology and contemporary symbols, it is a surreal exercise to really see oneself.

Last updated September 2026