marco maiato

Marco Maiato

Workstation New Media

Marco Maiato, 25, is a trans queer artist born in Luanda, Angola. They use image manipulation and 3D rendering to create visual compositions and universes where people who are racialised and marginalised by today’s society can exist in their most authentic versions. With a mixed media approach, such as photography and 3D modelling, Maiato explores Afro-futurism, gender fluidity, sex, emotional expressionism and fashion creation in a metaphysical universe. Marco Maiato builds their work on and for a community that brings with it narratives that are overlooked because of their identity, nationality and social status.

MAYA, 2022

MAYA presents mixed media creations of image manipulation and rendering, and the creation of digital animations, printing and construction of 3D sculpted pieces. The aim is to create visual compositions and universes where queer black people can exist in their most authentic versions, based on explorations of Afrofuturism, gender fluidity, sex and emotional expressionism.