Maïa Régis
Big Cat, 2019
£5,000
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‘Big Cat is inspired by street life scenes in Cuba, and the Santero religious rituals, including animal sacrifices.
Thank you for reading this post, don't forget to subscribe!I wanted to have an exploded narrative and break the linear space for mystery and ambiguity. The abstract motifs are associated with ostensibly figurative subjects.
I lived the endless food market of Palermo; I also lived near Electric Avenue, the popular street market of Brixton: my work comes from these popular atmospheres. Recently my work has been introducing characters sitting on a chair in a poetic contemporary environment: a kitchen, a bird market, a butchery… The narratives in my work look like a scene that could inspire a film.
What I’m looking for in my work is for it to be the most full of life possible. I like to navigate in troubled waters, between the real and the imaginary; between dramatic criminality and joyful optimism.
Ambiguity and rhythm for me are the key to a lively work. My work is at the crossroads of the “real world”, which is for me a lively, popular and spontaneous world, and a pictorial language far from all sophistications or mannerisms.’
Born in Paris 1995, and based in London, Maïa works between London and Sicily.
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