Rayer Ma

Rayer Ma (b.1994) is a Chinese artist whose practice investigates the poetics of material existences. Rooted in the language of painting, her installations of found colors and sculpted marks are visual scores of physical matter in flux, punctuating and activating space. With the everyday materials she gathers and transforms, Ma orchestrates interactions of lightness and gravity, rest and tension, absence and persistence, inviting viewers into a space of full-body, tender awareness. By creating openings for un-knowing and re-encountering the familiar, the work suspends the divide between natural and synthetic, living and nonliving, self and other. Through a practice in the ongoing transformation of material matter and human awareness, Ma searches for a revision of value and knowledge systems toward an inquiry into the nature of being.