What does it look like to express the maximum self, the totality of a being, interconnected and merging identities? 

For BIPOC artists, a style of expression that encompasses and draws from traditional culturally-specific crafts, non-art practices, religious imagery and the spirit of collection, becomes a powerful act of resistance. 

Maximalism and the aesthetic of fullness emerges as a challenge to constrictive and limiting forms of modern minimalism. Whereas minimalism lives between lines of balance and rules, while often removing contexts, maximalism celebrates big representation and big reflection with the use of more. It features sensibilities that are nuanced, inviting, and rooted in celebration, oftentimes engaging in larger conversations about social, cultural and political issues.

Maximalism leaves no space unlived in and makes full use of the joy to create. More is more, yes. To welcome that is to say more, live more, feel more, express more.