Maria Maea

Maria Maea lives and works in Los Angeles, California, USA and her multidisciplinary practice includes working in production, installation and performance. Maria Maea explores shadow and play through a range of meditative, durational, theatrical and actionist modes and while using film, sculpture and movement she deepens her connection to source. She investigates the ways we engage and view ourselves within the realities constructed for us and by us. As a Samoan-Mexican American, Maea straddles different layers of identity. Her work operates as an illumination on the brown body’s (dys)function as capitalist commodity, as a resistance to somatic fixity, an examination of the multiplicities of consciousness, and survival as immigrants and first-generation Americans. ⁣Maea’s work was presented in solo shows, group exhibitions and performances in galleries and institutions as: LaPau Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA (2021); Arts District, Los Angeles, California, USA (2021); MOCA, Tucson, Arizona, USA (2021); Residency Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA (2019); Coaxial Arts Foundation, Los Angeles, California, USA (2018); Commonwealth & Council Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA (2018) and Club Pro Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA (2017), among others.