Welcome to the 149th insertion of DEMUR®, an analytical series highlighting the intricacies of the artistic world and the minutiae lying within. In this episode, we fall down yet another rabbit hole, exploring Virgen Maria’s distorted, mind-bending Instagram feed and DJ career.
At first glance, María Forqué, better known as Virgen María, may call upon distant memories of a vacant nightmare, wet dream or both. Her Instagram feed consists of cursed and distorted imagery that demands a reaction, using shock value and sex to ensure you can’t look away. Claiming to be 1,000 years old, the Madrid native is taking a new approach to the techno scene, enlisting social media to promote her abstract work and live club performances.
In a brief swipe, we can amass a rough idea of Virgen María’s core ethos, beginning with her name. Referencing Virgin Maria, the mother of Jesus, she instates the first of three-axis that define her creations, one being religion. Despite a highly sexualized aesthetic, María devotes herself to both spirituality and God, spoken in her own words as “spirituality understood in a metaphysical way as opposed to textbook religiosity,”
Through fetish and sex, Maria confronts our societal norms, while battling her own internal struggles. Feeling alienated as a child by her rapidly changing body, her naked performance pieces attempt to rid of objectification in pursuit of rebellion. Making for the second of three axis, sex stands as a key focal point in all of Forqué’s work, questioning our taboo perceptions of the naked body as we shun it one moment and praise it the next.
Aside from her mind-bending, erotic visuals, Maria’s passion extend far past Facetune and Instagram. Most prevalent in the underground techno scene, she creates and presents bass-heavy tracks (fully naked), while chopping and mixing ASMR whispers and moans. Making for a highly unique cross between media, it’s about as intense as one could expect, ensuring a headache and movement voluntarily or not. “The three things most important to me are spirituality, sex and music – they are the holy trinity.” she says.
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