Mural – 14th Street Y – 344 E 14th St, New York, NY 10003
Video – ZAZ10TS, 10 Times Square – 1441 Broadway, New York, NY 10018

New York City is a city in constant flux and a place of ghosts. We live in apartments that housed countless generations of individuals and families, new buildings rise on top of the foundations of what came before, and long-familiar businesses open and close overnight. Now during the COVID-19 pandemic, this flux is more rapid and the scale of loss so immense we barely have time to comprehend its breadth. Combining decorative details that adorned the walls and ceilings of now vanished wooden synagogues with her dancing body and the Unicorn, an ancient symbol of death and rebirth, Maya’s mural project and video installation This Place Has a Body, creates new fantastical spaces out of the residue of loss. The video installation will be showcased on the ZAZ Corner Billboard (South East Corner of 41st Street and 7th Avenue) and will concurrently be projected on the ZAZ10Ts Gallery Wall in the lobby of 10 Times Square.

This mural was produced in collaboration with LABA.