My name is Maria Montanari. I'm a visual performer, stylist, and voice artist from Russia, now based in the Netherlands. I work with fashion, sound, poetry, and emotion — crafting spaces where identity, aesthetics, and vulnerability can coexist. I’ve always felt like an outsider — a little too much, a little too strange, a little too intense. But I’ve learned that this “too much” is actually my strength. Through styling, voice, and visual storytelling, I explore themes of longing, absence, feminine power, isolation, cultural memory, and transformation. I don’t believe in perfection. I believe in rawness. In honesty. In the moment where things fall apart and something new begins. My work is often inspired by theatricality, folklore, and cinematic textures — from Soviet memory to experimental fashion, from whispered poems to distorted silhouettes. I love boldness. I love contradiction. I love silence that says more than sound. I create not to impress — but to express.