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1 – 7 December
MOMOSTAR marks the culmination of Maite de Orbe’s artist residency at ICA. Bringing together photography, moving image, installation, performance and sound, the exhibition explores 'unbaptising': an act of freeing something from the cultural expectations that shape what it is, or can become.
Throughout the residency, de Orbe has sought to complicate the image, disrupting what is often fixed and foregrounding fragility and intimacy in the people they collaborate with and photograph. With MOMOSTAR, they explore the abstraction of the self, creating a space in the shadow of expected femininity.
Find out more about Maite de Orbe's artist residency
MOMOSTAR marks the culmination of Maite de Orbe’s artist residency at ICA. Bringing together photography, moving image, installation, performance and sound, the exhibition explores 'unbaptising': an act of freeing something from the cultural expectations that shape what it is, or can become.
Throughout the residency, de Orbe has sought to complicate the image, disrupting what is often fixed and foregrounding fragility and intimacy in the people they collaborate with and photograph. With MOMOSTAR, they explore the abstraction of the self, creating a space in the shadow of expected femininity.
Find out more about Maite de Orbe's artist residency
About the artist
Maite de Orbe is a Spanish, London-based artist working with photography, performance and moving image. Combining these media, their practice is focused on the complexity of identity making, touching on sexuality, gender and queerness, belonging, migration and community. Working collaboratively with dissident communities, de Orbe’s practice uses a visual documentary language at first that then lures into fantasy and world making, by prioritising love, intimacy and sensuality.
De Orbe is a Barbican Young Visual Artist alumni (2021-23), their work has been shown at PORT Magazine, The Financial Times, The Face, Dazed, Metal Magazine and has been shown at Frieze Art Fair, Barbican Centre, ICA, Reference Point, The Horse Hospital, and Bermondsey Project Space among others.
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Tue, 01 Dec 2026
Upper Gallery
06:00 pm
Wed, 02 Dec 2026
Upper Gallery
12:00 pm
Thu, 03 Dec 2026
Upper Gallery
12:00 pm
Fri, 04 Dec 2026
Upper Gallery
12:00 pm
Sat, 05 Dec 2026
Upper Gallery
12:00 pm
Sun, 06 Dec 2026
Upper Gallery
12:00 pm
Opening: Tue 1 Dec, 6pm
The opening night is free to attend, but advance booking is essential.
Entry at all other times is £3.
Ticket information
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Access information
Upper Gallery
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