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about
Noann Maia (b. 1998, San Francisco, California) is an American-Brazilian artist. Part of his life was spent in Maceió, Alagoas, Brazil, and he currently resides in Miami, Florida. Maia is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice moves fluidly between mediums, allowing materials and processes to bleed into one another. Receiving his BFA (2027) at New World School of the Arts, Maia’s work concentrates on construction — the materiality of the metaphysical; time — how duration grants agency for revealing decay or fabrication; and variables — reflecting on the volatility of life. His recent exhibitions include Sustaining Ecologies, Untitled Art Fair, Miami, FL (2025), and a group exhibition, Assembly Points, Art Basel week at The Koubek Center, Miami, FL (2024).
ARTIST STATMENT
Noann Maia’s practice centers on time and structure, and the shifting space where the two intersect. Noann takes the human construct of time as an architecture through revelatory means. An experience shapes an ideal, which is built, eroded, and reassembled. Within this framework, construction and deconstruction become ways of exposure, an act of reversion that arises a continual movement between presence and absence.
Construction begins with segmenting structure through personal human experiences, filtered through metaphysical, virtual, and surreal contexts. A framework is created to be defaced. Time and water function as a catalyst in Noann’s work, using artificial mechanics to weather and dismantle paintings through duration, exposure, and chance. Noann frames life as a pendulum that swings between gain and loss, order and collapse.
By dissecting structures and objects, Noann explores relations between the natural and artificial, and between construction and deconstruction. These complementary opposites reflect the dichotomy of existence.