Lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. She currently

attends the Painting Master in the Faculty of Fine Arts of

the University of Lisbon. Before that, she completed her

Painting degree at the same Faculty and did Erasmus at

École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy (ENSAPC).

Maria Máximo´s work is focused on a vital compulsion

for an emotional archeology. She exposes herself to a

procedural chain of subjective actions. A struggle

between efforts, joys, pains, refusals and choices, that,

on an aesthetic level, cannot, and should not, be totally

conscious.

In the last two years, her work has developed from

material experimentation. From the moment she

internalized these experiences, it became a language to

articulate personal traumas. The following process

involves a subtraction of matter, revealing plastic paths,

more specifically, the architectural appearance and the

drawing – in the latter, finding the noblest form of

catharsis.