MARIANA MONTEAGUDO
The Thinking Behind the Work
For Mariana Monteagudo, sculpture begins with curiosity rather than certainty.
Her figures emerge through experimentation and an intuitive dialogue with materials. Unexpected associations take shape along the way, allowing each work to develop its own identity.
Material Has Memory
Materials are never neutral. Found objects, discarded fragments, and repurposed elements bring their own histories into Monteagudo's work.
Through selection, assembly, and experimentation, these fragments acquire new relationships and identities while retaining traces of their past.
The work does not erase origin. It builds from it.
The Object as Presence
Monteagudo's sculptures move beyond representation. Their forms, textures, scale, and material complexity give them a distinctive physical character.
At once playful and unsettling, intimate and strange, these figures occupy the space around them with an unusual intensity.
Their relationship with the viewer changes through proximity and perception.
Creation as Continuity
For Mariana Monteagudo, creating is inseparable from living.
Motherhood, migration, and the rhythms of everyday life have shaped a practice in which art making becomes a continuous act of exploration.
The figures have evolved in scale, materials, and expression, while remaining connected to the experiences and circumstances from which they emerge.
Each sculpture belongs to an ongoing dialogue between personal history, manual labor, and creative discovery.
Not to Be Understood,
But Encountered
Mariana Monteagudo's sculptures resist a single interpretation. They invite a personal encounter.
They exist between attraction and discomfort, familiarity and estrangement, tenderness and the uncanny.
Their significance is not exhausted by explanation. It continues to unfold through the experience of living with them.
