Nadia Porras
Nadia Porras is a Cuban artist-performer-transformer living in the Vedado district of Havana, Cuba. But when she disguised herself, she becomes Maraya Shells, her alter ego that embodied a caricature of modern Cuban women.
Nadia Porras
This artist born in Cuba is graduated in engraving from the San Alejandro National Academy of Fine Arts. She is a conceptual artist who thinks the artist itself is a mean of expression meant to transcribe with his vision the environment that inspires him. That is her vision of what contemporary art is all AbOUT, and that is the reason why she created the character of Maraya Shells.
Maraya Shells
She has been created in 2005 in the head of Nadia Porras. The character of Maraya is presented by Nadia as a businesswoman very famous in Cuba that works for the Cuban people. Indeed, she is among other things a fashion counsellor for every young Cuban woman. Maraya is actually a way for Nadia to express her sensitivity, the way she see life and above all the woman condition on the island.
Besides, Nadia Porras see her alter ego like a caricature of modern stars, normal people that changes their name when they become famous.