Maia Fauvre

GAF 2023 Student Leadership Team  Artists Events Installation Views

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Chainsmoking is a story about toxic love. It is a metaphor for feeling so consumed by an emotion that it becomes your entire surroundings. The film uses movement to explore the effects of such a state and how it can manifest into codependency and beyond…

COLLABORATORS: Lauren Marcolus

BIO:

Maia Fauvre

Maia Fauvre (she/her) is a senior at NYU Gallatin whose concentration is Sustainable Design: The Art and the Practice. She is interested in how sustainability can be integrated into creative fields to promote the urgency of climate change and encourage sustainable lifestyles. As an artist she works primarily in digital media and has had her work published on multiple platforms including Cultured Magazine and Confluence.
 

Lauren Marcolus is a senior at NYU Gallatin studying dance as a form of collective identity and environmental activism. Having grown up dancing, she is now interested in how movement can create community, shape identity, and foster change. Marcolus is currently the president of Pulse Dance Project, NYU’s premier student-run dance company, where she works to provide dancers on campus the opportunity to create and showcase their choreography. She hopes to continue performing and choreographing after graduation, creating intentional art that highlights movement’s ability to bring people together and challenge systems of oppression.