Paola Monzillo

At the intersection of her training as an architect and her artistic practice, Paola Monzillo examines the ways in which territory has been represented, measured, and narrated. Cartographies and historical accounts emerge not as neutral records, but as constructions that organize imaginaries, hierarchies, and modes of belonging.

As a South American artist and granddaughter of European immigrants, she situates her work within the tensions that shape the identities of her territory—where local voices and dominant narratives overlap, contradict one another, or are silenced. She positions herself within this field of friction, exploring displacements, ruptures, and reinterpretations that reconfigure space as a historical construction. In this sense, inhabiting and narrating appear as inseparable practices, traversed by subjective positions and contested meanings.

Through a range of media and techniques, she develops processes based on layering, interweaving, reconstruction, and translation. Her practice incorporates manual procedures that involve time, repetition, and shifts in scale, emphasizing a dimension in which materiality ceases to be a mere support and instead assumes a structuring role within the work.

B. Arch. Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo (FADU), Universidad de la República, Uruguay.

Solo exhibitions:
2023 INNOVA Art Space, Punta del Este, Uruguay.
2022 One to One. Proyecto CasaMario, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2021 Patterns. Process of a Conversation, in co-authorship with Adam Becher. Maltfabrikken, Ebeltoft, Denmark.
2014 Narratives, short stories and other tales. Museo Histórico Cabildo, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2013 Typus Orbis Terrarum. SUBTE, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2011 Visible Territories ... Endless, curated by Mercedes Bustelo. La Pasionaria, Montevideo, Uruguay.

Selected group exhibitions:
2025 Testing elsewheres. Curated by Jari Malta and Manuel Gallardo. Collega, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2024 Montevideo, 300 years since the founding process, curated by Rosana Carrete. Cabildo Historical Museum, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2023 It´s going to end, curated by Fabiana Puentes and Agustina Rodríguez. EAC – Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2022 Thread, Conversations in Gondwana, curated by Juliana Caffé y Juliana Gontijo. EAC – Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay.
2021 L'art, un jeu sérieux, curated by Meryem Sebti. MACAAL – Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden. Marrakech, Morocco.
2019 And What It Became Is Not What It Is Now, curated by Louise Hobson. Grand Union, Birmingh...