Trained as a visual artist and achitect, Paola Monzillo nutures a passion for cartography. Moving mainly between collage, drawing and installation, the artist sets out to disrupt with her works the supposed neutrality of maps and images, white investigating issues linked to territory, history and representation.
As a part of it's collaboration with the second edition of BIENALSUR, the Museum of African Contemporary Art Al Maaden (MACAAL) is currently hosting a residency project by Paola Monzillo whose artistic practice echoes the ongoing exhibition's program about materiality in contemporary art.
Tapestry, Footprints in the Territory consists of a handmade tapestry made with maps of Latin American cities. The designs allude, on one hand, yo the iconography used in pre-Columbian textiles, and on the other, to the urban morphology diagram derived from the dominant discourses, the appropriationism charecteristic of cultural conquests and the myths around our own origins and identity.
