Time Warp

Photography | Film | Motion Design | Writing
Change is the only constant, a gradual progression over time, a ceaseless process of transformation. I seek to explore ways to compress, extend, and warp time, as a way of momentarily suspending this constant change. Solid forms melt; the integrity of matter distorted to seemingly bend the space-time continuum. A series of frozen vignettes where forms become elastic, folding into motion; a moment of becoming.


Maria Alexia Platia is a Greek multidisciplinary designer based in Brooklyn, New York. With a Communications Design MFA from the Pratt Institute and an Industrial Design BFA from RISD, Maria Alexia operates at the intersection of the physical and the digital. Her work revolves around building objects, spaces, systems, and narratives as means of storytelling, provocation, and creating immersive experiences.

2024; Pratt Graduate Show, La MaMa Galleria, Bowery, NY
2024; Other Islands Bookfair, Brooklyn, NY
2023; Pratt Thesis Inquiries Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
2023; Furnishing Utopia: Public Access, NYCxDesign, HeadHi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2023; Sympoiesis: Forging a Collective Cosmovision, AES NYC Gallery, SoHo, NY
2022; What is the Shape of Innovation? United Nations: World Creativity and Innovation Week, UN Secretariat Building, NY
2017; Our America, German Gallery, Providence, RI
2017; RISD Industrial Design Senior Show,  Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
2016; RISD Industrial Design Triennial, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI