Violeta maya
Born in Madrid, ES, 1993
Lives and works in Madrid, ES
Violeta Maya works across painting, interaction, and moving image, developing a practice grounded in time, process, and transformation. Her approach combines sequential thinking with intuitive responsiveness, allowing each work to unfold in relation to the next and forming a continuous visual field rather than a series of discrete compositions. Painting, in this sense, becomes a durational act in which rhythm, accumulation, and change function not only as formal devices but as structures through which the work emerges. Her paintings evoke shifting atmospheres in which colour and gesture register states of emergence, tension, and flux.
This focus extends into her handling of materials, where the balance between control and contingency becomes central. Working primarily with wet-on-wet techniques on unprimed canvas, Maya allows pigments to spread, absorb, and interact beyond complete control, treating material behavior as an integral part of the work’s formation. The resulting surfaces hold a dynamic tension between intention and unpredictability, foregrounding process and material responsiveness as central to meaning. Expanding into multi-panel works and sculptural forms inspired by Japanese screen traditions, she introduces permeability and spatial interaction, reinforcing an ongoing interest in continuity, movement, and the blurring of distinctions between painting, object, and environment.
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