Maya Lalive’s work developed from a meditative view of soul landscapes in painting to large-format interventions with photographic image objects in outdoor or indoor spaces. Her monumental installation “Der Riss / La fessura” at the Albigna dam in Bergell, 2016, triggered an international response. This temporary work was captured in the film “Nah am Riss” in an artistic documentary view, which understands the crack as the elemental force of nature on various levels. In several photo series Maya Lalive lets the viewer participate in her extraordinary perspective of high alpine climbing: Under the title “Unknown Landscapes” she shows rock surfaces and lichens as fascinating micro-landscapes between nature and abstraction. At the same time, her pictures, as documents of the times, refer to the sensitive balance and constant change in nature. (Text: Judith Annaheim, Art Curator: Guido Baumgartner)