Maiko is a Brazilian-born, Tio’tia:ke/Montréal-based artist working with traditional analogue photography, moving image, and darkroom-based processes. His practice spans representational image-making, abstract luminograms and photograms, and sculptural explorations with light-sensitive materials.
With the intention to create future relics, tactile representations of memory and myth, his approach combines experimental darkroom techniques with 20th-century printing methods.
The liminal region between documentation and invocation is where Maiko's luminograms, chromogenic abstractions, and hand-printed photographs reside, both with and without a camera. The darkroom turns into a ceremonial space where chemistry, silver halides, and fleeting moments of light work together to turn the transient into artifacts.
Influenced by diasporic histories and the supernatural, his work traces the parallels between resilience and agency.
He is currently working on a first series that explores the relationships between photographic materiality and blurs the boundaries between the darkroom as a sanctum and a laboratory.