MARIANA MONTEAGUDO
The Thinking Behind the Work
Mariana Monteagudo’s work emerges from lived experience rather than predefined concepts. It is shaped through a continuous process of making, where materials, memory, and intuition converge.
The sculptures are not designed to illustrate ideas. They are developed through accumulation, transformation, and attention to process, allowing meaning to surface through the act of creation itself.
Material Has Memory
Materials are central to the work. Reclaimed and repurposed elements are not treated as neutral, but as carriers of history and energy.
Each fragment enters the process with a past. Through transformation, it becomes part of a new structure while retaining traces of what it has been.
The work does not erase origin. It builds from it.
The Object as Presence
The sculptures are not representations. They function as objects with physical and emotional presence.
They are meant to be encountered rather than explained, occupying space in a way that is direct, immediate, and often ambiguous.
Meaning is not fixed. It shifts through proximity, time, and perception.
Creation as Continuity
Making is not separate from life. The process of creating these works unfolds alongside experiences of care, repetition, and transformation.
Each piece reflects a continuity between living and making, where time, labor, and attention are embedded in the final form.
The work is not an outcome. It is part of an ongoing process.
Not to Be Understood,
But Encountered
The sculptures do not ask for interpretation. They ask for presence.
They exist in the space between attraction and discomfort, familiarity and estrangement.
What matters is not what they mean, but how they are experienced.
