Violeta Maya’s work is rooted in her engagement with interaction and moving image, shaping a painterly practice that centres on time, process, and transformation. Her approach brings together sequential thinking and intuitive responsiveness, allowing each work to unfold in relation to the next and forming a continuous visual field rather than discrete compositions. At its core, her practice understands painting as something that happens over time – where duration, rhythm, and accumulation are not only formal concerns but conceptual ones. Drawing on both contemporary ideas of temporality and the expressive intensity of the Baroque, her paintings articulate shifting atmospheres in which color and gesture evoke states of emergence, tension, and flux.

This conceptual 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 move, absorb, and interact beyond her full control, positioning the medium as an active collaborator. The resulting surfaces hold a dynamic tension between intention and material behavior, challenging fixed authorship and emphasizing process as meaning. Expanding into multi-panel works and sculptural forms inspired by Japanese screen traditions, she introduces permeability and spatial interaction, reinforcing her interest in continuity, movement, and the dissolution of boundaries.