Maiko is a Brazilian-born, Tio’tia:ke/Montréal-based artist working through photography, moving image, and art direction. His practice merges 19th-century printing processes with experimental darkroom techniques to manifest future relics—tactile vessels of memory, myth, and metamorphosis.
Working with and without a camera, Maiko’s luminograms, chromogenic abstractions, and hand-printed images exist in the liminal space between documentation and invocation. The darkroom becomes a site of ritual: where light, chemistry, and time conspire to transmute the ephemeral into artifacts of emotional alchemy.
Influenced by diasporic histories and the supernatural, his work traces the uncanny parallels between arcane photographic practices and the clandestine—where the act of development mirrors the latent, the hidden, the slow reveal.
Currently, he is preparing a debut series that interrogates the mythology of early photographic materiality, drawing shadow-lines between darkroom as laboratory, darkroom as sanctum.