Live Performance

Live performance is central to Maya Irving's practice — an extension of the same embodied process that drives her painting. The body becomes the primary medium: through movement, gesture, and physical endurance, internal states are made visible in real time.

Her practice is shaped by a dialogue between body, memory, and environment. Beginning often with a blindfolded charcoal drawing as an "emotional map," her process allows internal states to surface without the mediation of sight. Mark-making emerges as an embodied knowing, where gesture precedes understanding.