And it was in this world that I saw glimpses of another – Maya Krtić

April 9, 2025

The window of my studio faces a parking lot, which borders a playground. In this lot, there is a container used both by us students of the school of art and by our surrounding neighbors to dispose of larger materials. I watch as my neighbors often choose the exciting debris and empty space of the lot to play with instead of the specially designed structures meters away. 

On Monday a group of them found discarded concrete blocks and granite stones and moved the material to a square shaped patch of asphalt in the middle of the lot. They arranged and decorated them with flowers. In the week since then, the arrangement in the asphalt boundary transformed as others encountered it. A woman carried some blocks home. Teenagers built stairs. A baby propped themselves up with the help of a concrete stack. I took photos every day of the resulting constructions.

There was a certain freedom exercised in the play of my neighbors. Making a place in between existing structures, they acted within the margins. A proposal: freedom can come from acting as if you were already free. 

Maya Krtić was born in Alabama in 1994 to Croatian-American parents. She completed her Bachelor of Architecture degree at The Cooper Union in 2017. This is her MFA graduation exhibition at Malmö Art Academy. Welcome!

Opening April 17, 2026 from 17 - 20

April 17 - May 2, 2026 opening hours:
Wed - Fri  12 - 18                                                       
Sat - Sun  12 - 16
By appointment: mayakrtic [at] gmail [dot] com

Gallery KHM1, Friisgatan 15, Malmö

The Master's programme in Fine Arts (MFA) is a two-year graduate programme which includes presenting a solo exhibition at the Academy's gallery.