Mar Sáez is a multidisciplinary artist born in Murcia, Spain, in 1983. She works with photography, text, video and sound. She has a degree in Psychology and Audiovisual Communication from the University of Valencia. Her work explores identity and biopolitics and the limits of the documentary genre.
In 2021 she received a residency grant from the Spanish Academy in Rome. There she began the project Terza Vita. It follows young lovers on the beaches of Rome’s Ostia seaside resort.
Sáez has published three photobooks. Vera y Victoria (2016) and Gabriel (2018) came out with André Frère Éditions. Terza Vita (2024) was published by La Fábrica in Spain and Schilt Publishing in the Netherlands. The text in Terza Vita is by the writer Elena Medel.
Her work has been shown at the Spanish Academy in Rome, the Gabarron Foundation in New York, Retine Argentique Gallery in Marseille and F22 Foto Space in Hong Kong. She won the LUX Prize of the Association of Professional Photographers of Spain (AFPE) twice. In 2022 she was a finalist for the Pilar Citoler International Contemporary Photography Prize. She is represented by Galería Daniel Cuevas in Madrid and Fifty Dots in Barcelona.
