GIVE ME SPACE Approche

solo show with Seen fifteen

“There are no rules in my process. I find it interesting to see how the eye reacts to different techniques overlapping each other, and want to create something that is only truly readable in the physical, analogue world.” Maya Rochat

Seen Fifteen is pleased to present the work of Maya Rochat at Approche 2018, where we will create a site specific installation within the space at La Moliere. Maya Rochat’s work is largely photography- based and evolves at the crossover point between installation, painting, collage, performance and video. She produces total artworks that seep into life and transfer equally from one media to another (books, banners, photographs, videos, cars). From the outset, Maya Rochat was able to develop such a personal and bold style thanks to a serendipitous encounter between the processes and media at the heart of her practice. She imposes a break from the flow of images we are currently confronted with. Using portraits of her friends, landscapes, found details, she creates a fluid world where analog images are interspersed with digital interventions and where textures blend. For many photographers, the printing stage is the final part of the creative journey, but for Maya Rochat it is the beginning of the experimental process. She confronts surfaces head on using tools and materials (fluorescent spray paint, transparent banners) whose effects cannot be reproduced digitally, highlighting the physicality of multi-layered images.