Maiko is a Brazilian emerging artist currently based in Tio'tia:ke/Montréal whose work references memory, myth, and materiality through the tactile processes of analogue photography.
Working primarily with darkroom-based processes, Maiko creates both images and sculptures using light-sensitive materials, ranging from luminograms and photograms to figurative photographs. By blending 20th-century photographic printing methods with experimental techniques, Maiko produces works that serve as future relics, functioning as artifacts imbued with both documentation and invocation.
In the darkroom, Maiko treats chemistry and fleeting moments of light as catalysts for transformation, turning the transitory into the tangible. His practice is shaped by diasporic histories, resilience, and embodied memory, forging connections that inspire new mythologies.
Currently, Maiko is developing a new series that investigates the physicality of traditional analogue photography and examines the darkroom as both a sacred space and a laboratory .