My name is Maya, and I am here to share with you my work, hoping it brings you pleasure, discomfort, and maybe even a laugh. The focus of my practice is sex. I am drawn to how I experience touch, and my body in relation to another, the process of intimate moments between me and ‘the other’. The use of fabric within my practice is important because of how it interacts with my body, almost as if it were another person. I take inspiration from my own experiences of physical intimacy and a lot of my imagery from the visceral moments bodies evoke together. In my most recent works, I have been playing with making the works interactive. I find the playful awkwardness of making the audience member part of these intimate moments adds an extra layer to each work: voyeurism, active participation, and becoming a direct part of the piece. Essentially, all the good, the weird, the bad, and the awkwardness that goes along with sex and being a sex haver.
My name is Maya, and I am here to share with you my work, hoping it brings you pleasure, discomfort, and maybe even a laugh. The focus of my practice is sex. I am drawn to how I experience touch, and my body in relation to another, the process of intimate moments between me and ‘the other’. The use of fabric within my practice is important because of how it interacts with my body, almost as if it were another person. I take inspiration from my own experiences of physical intimacy and a lot of my imagery from the visceral moments bodies evoke together. In my most recent works, I have been playing with making the works interactive. I find the playful awkwardness of making the audience member part of these intimate moments adds an extra layer to each work: voyeurism, active participation, and becoming a direct part of the piece. Essentially, all the good, the weird, the bad, and the awkwardness that goes along with sex and being a sex haver.