Maritza Caneca

Lives and works in Miami, FL, USA

Artist statement

Visual artist Maritza Caneca’s practice is driven by three decades as a cinematographer. Inspired by her early work, the artist is in a continuous search for symmetry, focusing on natural and manmade pattern making. Caneca’s projects are clad in geometric tendencies lending themselves to repetitive forms, particularly the simple design of pools - perfect squares in perfect harmony. Caneca’s installations and photographs communicate the nostalgia felt by the artist in 2010, when she witnessed the abandonment of her grandparents’ pool in their summer ranch. Since that pivotal moment, Caneca has become obsessed with the nature of pools and the memories that once filled these spaces. Within each fragment of the world, the poetic force of Caneca's artworks, immersed in temporalities, silence and transformation, lead to the enchantment of a forgotten world. The images overflow the banal gaze of everyday life, subverting the common through poetic traces of the real.

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