
Maria Maea
“Ancestors turn out to be very interesting strangers,” Donna Haraway once said, arguing that humans are the product of all kinds of earthy assemblages. This notion provided a fitting entry into Maria Maea’s deeply personal and technically impressive exhibition “All in Time,” a bighearted meditation on the present tense and its lived expressions. This show, one of the artist’s most ambitious projects to date, included two wall-based works and four sculptures that were produced with the help of Maea’s mother and brother, Susan and Martin Tuilaepa. (Three of the sculptures function as portraits,