BIOGRAPHY
Maya Ponce is at a point in her career where she feels the need to step back and look at her practice as a whole, in order to better understand what she is actually speaking about through her work. Because her background and practice move across different artistic fields, she has often found it difficult to locate her work within a specific discipline or framework. However, beyond this interdisciplinary nature, she is also interested in identifying the deeper questions, concerns or themes that connect her different bodies of work. She can recognize recurring elements in her practice, such as the body, movement and her way of working, but she feels there may be a broader conceptual territory underlying them that she has not yet been able to fully articulate.
She is therefore seeking an external curatorial perspective that could help her look at her portfolio from a distance and identify possible connections, patterns and directions that may not be visible to her from within her own practice.
At this stage, she is particularly interested in thinking about how her practice can develop and circulate internationally, and what kinds of artistic, curatorial and exhibition contexts might be relevant to its future. She sees this review as an opportunity to reflect on who she is as an artist, how she can communicate her practice more clearly, and how it might be situated within the contemporary art field.