Okavango Delta Lilies 3, 2002

For over a decade Maxi Cohen has been photographing and filming lush abstract images of water from Bali to Botswana to Brazil which are mesmerizing, meditative, and colorful. The Zambezi River Stacking Tables was her first in an on-going progression of video multimedia sculptures. Here she is offering a photographic series of water lilies from the Okavango Delta.

Maxi Cohen is a multi-disciplinary artist whose films, videos, photography, and installations often investigate issues around cultural, racial, and gender identity with a transcendent poignancy and beauty. A recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the New York State Council of the Arts, and Art Matters, Cohen's work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and other museums around the world and whose films have played in movie theaters and on television internationally. Her films include the feature-length Joe and Maxi (1978), an award-winning documentary about the relationship between the artist and her father, and South Central Los Angeles: Inside Voices (1994), a documentary film about the African-Americans, Koreans, and Latinos who were living in areas most affected by the 1992 Los Angeles riots. As a media activist, her film and television work has had a significant influence in creating visible social change. Cohen has taught in New York at the Pratt Institute, the New York University Graduate School of Education, and the New School.

Currently, Maxi has been developing her most ambitious project to date. Cohen has been filming and photographing water, lush abstractions to grand landscapes all over the world, from Argentina to Zimbabwe, as part of A Movement in Water. A Movement in Water is a traveling, interactive public art installation, a museum of water, where the visitor becomes the body of evidence. It is intended to be intimately transformative, as you experience and understand the power of the water in you. As our molecular structure is 99% water, we believe that if you have a deep experience through the wonder of the art of water in you, your reverence for water, thus nature and the environment, will increase.

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