"Maia Gambis ushers us through a landscape both natural and human, filtered by its unique minimalism. This not only implies austerity of resources and elements —or "objects"— within its compositions, but also of meaning and direction. Her works lead us to participate in stories without people; stories where human consciousness and the great value of human creativity are, in fact, present. (...) The artist seems to offer new hues to the psychological expression of those "objects". They move amid extremes, almost disappearing; melting into the matte and textured surface of the cotton paper, like an abstract transparency; existing as defined by their light... These are journeys that posit the great unknowns of consciousness and creation; the great dilemmas of existence itself..." Ileana Viteri