Maya Ciarrocchi Projects

Maya Ciarrocchi is a Canadian American artist whose work excavates vanished and inaccessible histories, themes embedded in her Ashkenazi ancestry and Queer identity. Her previous career as a dancer/choreographer and theatrical designer allowed her to work across disciplines, from site-specific performance to large-scale projections in traditional and experimental theatrical venues. These past experiences inform Ciarrocchi's interdisciplinary studio practice, which includes mixed media, alternative-process photography, video, and movement-based performance. By combining personal and historical narratives with spatial and embodied mapping, Ciarrocchi uncovers buried pasts and highlights how these erasures manifest in the present. The resulting two-dimensional, time-based, and performative investigations construct new, fantastical spaces from the residue of loss. She is developing LoopCurrent, a new performance installation that envisions our environmental impact on the planet and the irrevocably altered future through movement, sound, seismography, and textiles.