Monika Ardila

My artistic practice focuses on privacy. As in a kind of constant self-portrait, I seek to rescue looks, gestures, objects, thoughts or intimate situations that direct the gaze towards a common privacy. I am concerned about the reality of the person as something timeless and above all, individual. Seen from the current context, which is not immune to the in uences and pressures of an environment where the image proliferates in countless ways and points in a massive way, to interests, feelings, royalties, lifestyles, and even concerns. Rethinking the social and technological context that surrounds us as a modi- er of the perception we have of ourselves, at which point it undermines the intimacy inherent to human beings. My practice seeks to blur its outlines, to- wards uniformity or standardization as a means of adaptation and survival. I believe rethinking the sociological context is necessary for each project as it allows us to analyze the changes suffered by the individual being part of it.
I develop my work by building an imaginary context, through a process of composing, decontextualizing, rearming or loosening elements and messages altogether, from our era. All this with the aim of bringing them to a common language and at t...

2013 - 2014
Programa de estudios en arte contemporáneo, A*Desk, Barcelona

2011 -
Workshop “Playing the stage” Jan Mech, Hangar, Barcelona

2006-2009,
Escola Superior de Disseny ESDi, Electronic Art and Digital Design, Sabadell, Spain.

2004-2006
Universidad Pompeu Fabra, First Cycle, Barcelona, Spain

EXPOSICIONES:
2016 - Muestra individual , ESTUPENDO, espacio Montolio, Barcelona
2016 - Mundo Collage,exposición colectiva en Las cosas de Martinez, Barcelona
2014 - Performance Una charla con Raimundas Malasauskas, A*desk
2014 - Performance Sweet Wall, A*Desk en colaboración con la Fundacion Toni Tapies.
2013 - Proper Pride, collage - textil art, La Lleonera, Barcelona
2013 - Untitled, Exposición Colectiva, Taller La Reina, dentro del marco -
Tallers Oberts Ciutat Vella 2013 Barcelona.
2012 - Exposición colectiva, Barcelona Showcase en la Casa Batlló, Barcelona.
2011 - Exposición y venta en “El Festivalet” en el FAD, Barcelona.
2011 - Exposicion Individual, Dibujo e ilustración, Centre d’Art Juneda, Lleida
2010 - Selección de Videos en el proyecto Fabrica de Sueños, Barcelona.
2008 - Video-creación selecionado por Esdi para el festival internacional de videoart LOOP, Barcelona
2008 - proyecto “Adaptados” seleccionado para la muestra artistica dentro del proyecto/evento
Red Bull Music Academy, Barcelona, en Fabra I Coats

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PUBLICACIONES:

2014 - Girls Get Busy, online magazine #22
2011 - Selected works, Carpaccio Magazine #32
2011 - “My Boy“ Mixed ...