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I work with what I find around me as a way of attuning to place—engaging with its layered realities and unseen tensions.

The discarded materials I gather emerge from global systems of consumption, bearing the traces of movement, labor, and neglect. I respond to their grit, scent, heft, and luminosity through processes of burning, layering, and transformation. Luminous surfaces emerge that rupture, implode, and reveal—gesturing toward an elusive thread that binds earth and cosmos, reframing material, context, and place.

As a child, I fled Uruguay with my family following a military coup. This rupture—and the subsequent migrations that have shaped my life—inform how I relate to material and memory. Growing up in cultures where reuse was born of necessity instilled in me a deep respect for the provisional and a trust in the transformative potential of the everyday.

My practice entails a rigorous questioning of inherited perceptions and an openness to what endures beyond them. It embraces uncertainty and transformation, positioning the everyday as a site of renewal and collective possibility.

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2004-2008
OCADU, Toronto, Canada
 
Awards 2008
Ron Shuebrook Award, Toronto, Canada
Charles Street Video Art Award, Toronto, Canada
OCAD Faculty Lois Hathaway, Memorial Award Toronto, Canada

2013 Aperture Film Festival, Asia Pacific Ethnographic Documentary,
"Path of Light" Melbourne, Australia
 
Exhibitions 
Solo
2023 “Rooted in the Stars”
Bougainvillaea Art Gallery,Udaipur, India
2011 ‘Ethereal Forest" Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada
 
Group Exhibition
2020 'Conjunction', The India Story Swabhumi, Kolkatta, India
2014' Una Gracia Mistica les Concede', Plecto Gallery Medellin, Colombia
2014'Espacio', Plecto GalleryMedellin, Colombia
2011 'Sound Circles', Gaya Art Space Ubud, Bali
2009 'Saudades for Tomorrow', Median Contemporary Toronto, Canada

2025 Monica Figueredo

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