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Monica Belmontes (known as Monica Belni) is an artist from the border town of Tijuana, Mexico. Her artistic project derives from an interest in the de-formation of the human body, our perception of ugliness and our relationship with violence. The artist looks to build contrasts that are between something cute and something grotesque to convey a dark humor towards the ironies and trivialities in childhood and adolescence; always exploring and playing with the western canons of beauty and what pop culture deems grotesque.