Mônica Lóss

In my work, I explore textile materials and procedures to produce constructions, sensory and wearable objects that relate to space as a way to produce photographs, performances, videos and installations.
I investigate the ritualistic dimension of handicrafts as a practice of reinvention, tensioning notions of identity and belonging, of fictionalized bodies to create fables about other natures and relationships between the feminine and the domestic.
I am interested in using second-hand materials, things discarded and accumulated over time to speculate on the memory load of these materialities and as a strategy to interfere in the fate and permanence of things in the world.

PhD in Arts by the University of Barcelona, Spain, Master in Education and postgraduate in Surface Design by the Federal University of Santa Maria, Brazil, and by the same institution, she holds a bachelor's degree and a teaching degree in Visual Arts. She is a member of the group of women artists Gomagroupa (BR), is a researcher in the Research Group Dissident Experiences in Visual Arts – Federal University of Amapá – UNIFAP, BR

She has participated in exhibitions in many different institutions in Brazil, United States, Mexico and Europe such as: Embassy of Brazil in Stockholm (Sweden), KORU6, Helsinki (Finland) and Galerija ARgenTUM, Vilnius, (Lithuania) in 2018. Her work was selected for the “97th Annual All Media Exhibition”, Michigan, USA (2019), the “1° Visual Arts nacional show Virgínea Artigas”, SP, BR (2020) and for the “Deep Blue See show”. Ground Floor Gallery, NY, USA (2020). She was an invited artist in the exihibition “Se antes do fim... in the Maré Foto Festival. RN, BR (2021), Festival Internacional do Rio, RJ, BR (2021), “Mostra Museu: Art in the quarentine”, SP, BR (2021), and “In Praise of Magic”, Paradice Palase – Brooklyn, NY (2021). Manufactured Narratives: Chronicles of Textile Artists. UICA, Grand Rapids, MI, USA (2022). New York Latin American Art Triennial. Queens College Art Gallery / Kupferberg Center for the Arts. NY, USA (2022); Maskoletânea. Espaço Piloto Gallery. UNB, Brasília, Brasil (2023); TENUOUS THREADS. Atlantic Gallery, NY (2023)