Maria Bodil

Maria Bodil is a duo working at the intersection of photography, film, and design.

Lieve Maria Eek and Marthe Bodil Vos met during their studies at AMFI in Amsterdam, where they assisted each other on their respective projects before officially uniting their practices under the name Maria Bodil. Based in Amsterdam today, the duo is surrounded by a small, loyal team—including stylist Anna Claassen, who is integrated into their studio,and casting director Michiel van Maaren. Discovered by Glamcult magazine, for which they designed the cover of the COMING HOME issue, they presented their work for the first time at PAN Amsterdam, and then at UNSEEN.

The series of images created in collaboration with 1605 Magazine offers a reflection on the body, no longer as an identity marker, but as a plastic form reflecting its era. These works stem from photographs of female nudes taken by the artists,which were used to train an artificial intelligence model. The multiple generations of images, subsequently reworked by the artists, shift the anatomies toward a fragmentary abstraction. Thus, Maria Bodil injects an algorithmic presence into the development of their motifs, blurring the boundary between artisanal authorship and machine reproduction, and underlining the importance of this issue in contemporary image-making. This dual process then reclaims the canonical narratives of female nudes by updating the history of erotic gazes. The visual results guided by the prompts illustrate the male gaze that the Internet casts on female bodies, and exacerbate the reifying representation systems that shape the AI's eye.