Overview
Maya Eizin Öijer has without a doubt played an important role on the Swedish art scene since the 70’s. Making use of a rich vocabulary of images heavily charged with symbols, she has from the very start been interested in the archetypical landscape of the subconscious. Opposing poles meet in her work:  pain, lust, suffering and desire. By re-using images from art history and popular culture, her work is characterized by a rich imagery filled with symbols, where the associative plays a major role.

 

Early on in her career, Maya Eizin Öijer made use of media images. A newspaper cutting could be united with an image borrowed from art history, creating a mixed genre of high and low. During the postmodernist phase of the 80´s, there were references to Baroque and Rococo in her work. She was an early adapter of new technology and she created images with references to film, photo and painting manipulated in the computer in the 90´s.

 

By combining different fragments of images, a visual and an emotional link is created from the present to our memories of the past. Maya Eizin Öijer explores the landscape of our subconscious mind and peers into the world of dreams and fantasies. Her work is filled with symbols that evoke associations with myths, archetypes and the darker sides of our human emotions.

 

Maya Eizin Öijer lives and works in Stockholm. She is represented at several institutions, such as Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Exhibitions
Installation shots
Works
  • Nyx Opium Hourglass
    Nyx Opium Hourglass
  • Nyx Hourglass
    Nyx Hourglass
  • Amaryllis
    Amaryllis
  • Draksådd
    Draksådd
  • Nyx Positiv
    Nyx Positiv
  • Nyx Negativ
    Nyx Negativ
  • Timglas / Hourglass
    Timglas / Hourglass
  • Mothugg 5-Point Blank/Revenge 5-Point Blank
    Mothugg 5-Point Blank/Revenge 5-Point Blank
  • Mothugg 3-Winchester/Revenge 3-Winchester
    Mothugg 3-Winchester/Revenge 3-Winchester
  • Mothugg II / Revenge II
    Mothugg II / Revenge II
  • Mothugg / Revenge
    Mothugg / Revenge
  • Magnetism
    Magnetism
  • Eruption
    Eruption
  • Memory Garden
    Memory Garden
  • Outside of Eden
    Outside of Eden
  • Spegel I, Spegel II / Mirror I, Mirror II
    Spegel I, Spegel II / Mirror I, Mirror II
  • L´Heure Bleue
    L´Heure Bleue
  • Mardröm / The Nightmare
    Mardröm / The Nightmare
  • Pietà
    Pietà
  • The Heart is Basically...Boucher
    The Heart is Basically...Boucher
  • Venus - Vanitas
    Venus - Vanitas
  • The Heart is Basically...
    The Heart is Basically...
  • Julia Tömmer Giftbägaren – Juliet Drinking Poison
    Julia Tömmer Giftbägaren – Juliet Drinking Poison
  • Gungan / The Swing
    Gungan / The Swing
  • Kröningen
    Kröningen
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