El rio como una roca

In Maya Rochat’s work, any process is a good one if it helps push photography into something other than an attempt to reproduce reality. For her, images should tell more than the truth.

In her upcoming exhibition at Despacio, artificial light intertwines with analogue photographs and digital screen prints, swaths of abstract paint are spread over familiar scenes and silhouettes, and images are hung from walls like pages torn from a colossal book. The scene is set for an installation that lies at the crossroads of a book, an exhibition, and an atelier.

'A River is a Rock' is one of Rochat’s signature journeys through texture and light, marked by shimmering colors, immersive projections, and a healthy disregard for the rules of a typical exhibition.

Drawing from the past two years of her photographic production, which she revisits and deconstructs in different scales, Rochat has created an installation full of powerful emotional resonances.

Maya Rochat’s solo show, curated by Sandino Scheidegger, opens on March 3rd and runs through April 14th, 2018.