Turbine Art Fair Selects: Maja Marx

Maja Marx’s is a South African painter, currently living and working in Cape Town.

Her paintings are essentially hyper-activations of surface - Marx starts by mapping ‘found’ compositions onto her canvas, and then allows this process of transcription to self-proliferate. Once the optical field of each canvas has become alive, Marx uses the act of painting to literally ‘stare herself’ out onto the canvas – each layer of paint, each engagement responds to the layers beneath to become rich self-referential fields in which the physical act of looking is foregrounded; surfaces that are read, looked at and stared into all at once.

Maja is the curator of a pebble in the mouth. for Turbine Art Fair 2022 Off The Grid. She has featured in both South African and international exhibitions, with her most recent solo exhibition, There There (2020) hosted by Whatiftheworld.