Bio

Maria Dragoi is a writer and researcher interested in ideas of agency and possession institutional spaces. Framing natural history museums as sites of colonial accumulation and control, her current work attempts to map the networks of power which enabled their creation. Her artistic practice satirises the perverse dynamic of the ‘wonder’ of the natural world presented in museums filled with dead things.

She has written for Worms Magazine, Polyester Zine, Saatchi Yates, Camper Mag, Landscape Institute Journal, and others. She is also the founder of Zgriptor, an interdisciplinary journal and press which aims to promote discussion around themes of time, labour, technology, community action, and communication - unpacking the em(body)ment inherent in all of these topics. She is currently completing an MA in Museum Studies at UCL.