MAUDE MARIS

Prior to painting, Maude Maris labors through an investigative process of casting and photographic staging of everyday objects. Through these steps, she’s able to give otherwise random objects new identities and imbue a new potential interpretation or possibility concerning the object’s scale, function and material. Once staged, her subjects can pass from one family to another (animal form to bone, stone to body fragment, etc...) as Maris moves through a fluid classification of the world.

In a form of anthropology, she reconstructs fantasized visions nourished by documentary research ranging from an Anatolian archeological site to photographs of modern sculptors’ workshops, and thus shapes a new personal mythology. Confronted with objects whose identities have been skewed, the viewer is caught between the perspective illusion of a glossy space and the difficulty of identifying their scale, bringing to question their own idea of shapes and things.