Paulina Moncada

Paulina’s practice is rooted in the Andean mountains and the tropics, a type of landscape that folds and unfolds, hosting multiple semiotic processes. This environment expands the world by reflecting, multiplying, and transforming signs, a reality that has bled into her artistic practice. By creating staged and constructed images Moncada proposes self-aware scenarios that reveal the double nature of things, opening us up to other ideas of how the world could be. Her images –interior spaces that look like exteriors, still-lifes that resemble astronomical entities, machines that draw mountains– sit comfortably in the frontier of abstraction and representation whilst blending them together. This dual nature allows her to oscillate between the precise and the accidental, using mediums that reveal or distance themselves from the artist's hand. Paulina’s aim is the decantation of the invisible, drawing inspiration from non-human life that silently teaches us how to dwell in mystery by pointing out what exists in the world.