Dehejia Maat

Moth Momma

Mixed-media collage, found objects, drawings, photographs on board

“I’ve never liked to explain a certain piece of work. If you’ve made a picture, and that’s how you wanted it to be—hopefully it can speak for itself and whatever it says to the viewer—it’s the right message because there isn’t a wrong message. Each person takes something a little different from the same picture, and I’m happy with that.”

— Dehejia Maat

About the artist

Dehejia Maat

American

Dehejia Maat is a painter, print, and collage artist born in Washington, DC. She has exhibited in Sewall, Belmont House and Cup of Joes for 4HerStory. She currently has a book of paintings collage and poetry called Deep Rooted Soul Sister.

Dehejia Maat’s paintings are unfinished inventories of fragments: objects, drawings, photographs, and other found things. They are improvisational sites in which the constructed and the ready-made are used to question our making of the world through language and knowledge. Her arrangements are schematic, inviting the viewer to move into a space of speculation. She relies on our desires for beauty, poetics and seduction.