MONIKA BRAVO MONIKA BRAVO Is a Multi-Disciplinary Art- Ist Born in Bogotá, Colombia
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MONIKA BRAVO MONIKA BRAVO is a multi-disciplinary art- ist born in Bogotá, Colombia. She studied fashion design in Rome & Paris and Photog- raphy in London and NYC, In 1994, she relo- cated to NYC to pursue a career in the Arts. ate a series of 13 large glass panels for URUMU, a solo show curated by Beatriz PS-IS 314. Recent commissions BREATH- Lopez will open Feb 1st 2014 at NC-arte, ING_WALL a 58 monitor video strip com- in Bogota, Colombia, and this work will be missioned by Los Angeles World Airports part of “Waterweavers: The River in Con- for the Tom Bradley International Terminal temporary Visual and Material Culture at LAX. Corporate commissions include from Colombia”, at Bard Graduate Cen- IN-SITU a large photographic commis- ter, curated by Jose Roca in April 2014, sion for Talisman Energy Inc’s main office Monika Bravo nace en Bogotá, Colombia “So far away yet so close will be part “of in Bogota, Colombia, H20_ AKA, Boutique y estudia diseño de moda en Roma y en “Migrations” at Pelham Art Center, cu- Hotels, Central Park NYC, 6 Projections Paris, Fotografía en Londres y Nueva York rated by Lisa Banner. Recent solo shows cover a 44 feet of wall at the health club of donde vive y trabaja desde 1994. include LABORATORIUM Solo projects moving images depicting aquatic sequenc- at ArtBO curated by Jose Roca, “Recent es in a circular motion. Commissioned by Bravo usa la idea de la percepción para works” at MAM, Museum of Art, Montclair. Korman Communities, also commissioned preguntarse si el mundo en el cual vivi- NJ, “El objeto de la Percepción” at Centro by them, RHAPSODY_AKA Boutique Ho- mos es una construcción mental, utiliza Colombo Americano, Bogota and “Land- tels, Times Square NYC, 3 LCD monitors su práctica artistica como herramienta scapes of Belief” at BYU Museum of Art at the lobby create a panoramic canvas para decifrar su relación con el espacio (MOA) in Provo, UTAH all took part in 2013. showing the transient architecture and the emocional. Con este impetu, ella utiliza dynamic of Times Square. HEXAGRAMS, imágenes, sonido, materiales industriales Her work has been shown at Sternesen commissioned for COMCAST 2 Light en- y tecnología creando situaciones - objetos Museum, Oslo, Museo de Arte, Banco de casements 64 x 64” have been installed in- y ambientes tales como telares, acuarios, Oslo. Su trabajo se ha exhibido en Museum la Republica, Bogota, Colombia, Boru- side the walls of the 52nd and 53rd floors laberintos, horizontes, y oraculos como el of Art Montclair, NJ, Borusan Contempo- san Contemporary, Istanbul, Seoul Inter- in Philadelphia, INTERVALS, Thirty 16 x16’’ I Ching que aluden a paisajes reconocibles rary, Istanbul, Seoul International Biennial national Biennial of New Media Art, SITE photographic tiles illustrating the city of y examinan la noción de espacio-tiempo- of New Media Art, SITE Santa Fe; Centro de Santa Fe; Centro de Arte Contemporaneo Newark are installed along a 34 feet wall memoria como una medida de la realidad. Arte Contemporaneo Caja CAB de Burgos, Caja CAB de Burgos, Spain, El Museo del commissioned for Kirpatrick, Lockhart & Spain, El Museo del Barrio, y el New Mu- Barrio, and New Museum in NY. Her vid- Gates Law firm Newark, NJ and LIFT_ME_ La exposiciòn individual URUMU (2013-14) seum en NY. Sus videos se han proyecta- eos have been screened at MOMA, Anthol- UP_HK, Peninsula Hotel Hong Kong, an in- curada por Beatriz Lopez se expone en do en el MOMA, Anthology Film Archives, ogy Film Archives, Brooklyn Museum, New teractive video installation with sound, lo- NC-arte, en Bogota, Colombia durante fe- Brooklyn Museum, New Museum of Con- Museum of Contemporary Art, The Kitchen, cated at the elevator that goes to the SPA. brero y Marzo 2014, la misma obra hará temporary Art, The Kitchen, Museo di Arte Museo di Arte Contemporaneo di Roma, parte de la exposición: “Waterweavers: The Contemporaneo di Roma, the New York the New York video festival at the Lincoln She has been the recipient of Longwood River in Contemporary Visual and Material video festival at the Lincoln Center & the Center & the Americas Society in NY, L.A Digital_Matrix Commission, Bronx Council Culture from Colombia”, at Bard Graduate Americas Society in NY, L.A MOCA, Tate MOCA, Tate Britain, Museo Reina Sofia. on the Arts, the Art Scope Miami Emer- Center, Nueva York, curada por Jose Roca, Britain, Museo Reina Sofia. Sus comisio- gent Artist awards in 2002 and 2005 and en Abril 2014. Landscape of Belief, (2012) nes públicas más recientes incluyen AN Recently commissioned by Spear Capital to NYSCA’s Electronic Media & Film Award; se exhibió en el BYU Museum of Art (MOA) INTERVAL OF TIME, una video instalación create a large installation of still and mov- She has lectured at Santa Fe Art Insti- en Provo, UTAH, y en los Proyectos indi- comisionada por Landmarks Public Art ing images covering two lobbies for their tute, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Lannan viduales: Laboratorium curado por Jose Program para la Colección de Arte de la 315 Park Avenue building in NYC. Bravo Foundation and Site Santa Fe among oth- Roca para ArtBo en el 201; tambien formó Universidad de Texas. TIME WILL TELL, was also commissioned by Landmarks ers; she has also been selected to partici- parte de la exposición The storytellers (Los Comisionado por Public Art for Public Public Art Program to create a video instal- pate in 2001‘s LMCC’s WTC World Views, habladores) con curaduría de Selene Wendt Schools at New York City School Construc- lation for the University of Texas at Austin’s the Santa Fe Art Institute & 2003 ART OMI y Gerardo Mosquera que se expuso en La tion Authority y BREATHING_WALL para public art collection, also commissioned by Artist-in-Residency Programs. Her work Casa Republicana de la Biblioteca Luis An- la Terminal Internacional Tom Bradley en Public Art for Public Schools at New York has been reviewed by The New York Times, gel Arango y en el Sternesen Museum en el Aeropuerto de Los Angeles entre otros. City School Construction Authority to cre- Art Nexus, Art in America, The New Yorker. MONIKA BRAVO ARTIST STATEMENT The visual approach to landscape and nature in my gle between mind and nature, on the contrary, work ranges from the philosophical (Is our world through poetry we can find a connection between Was it because I was born at midnight under a a mental construction? SYMPHASIS_SIMULTA- being and the urge to understand who we are and Scorpio full moon that I feel an intense urge to NEOUS APPEARANCES (2000), to the emotional what we are made of (science). 2010: BREATH- understand life? or was it the impact of losing my (when does a space become a place? PARALLELS, ING_WALL_LAX Commissioned by Los Angeles large thick Plexiglas which rest on a ledge and tilt father at the age of eight that made me question (2003) - In SO FAR AWAY YET SO CLOSE, (2011), I World Airports. 2 video installations, at the arriv- on the wall, as light passes through them creat- space on an emotional level deepening this impe- was challenged to transcend the political mean- als level, 58 LCD monitors form an S shape, at the ing a shadow. In this series I am interested in the tus? I examine the notion of perception by ques- ing of what the US/Mexico border represents and other end a video wall containing a matrix of 25 idea of emotional space & memory that is repre- tioning whether the world we live in, is but a men- decided to layer it into a more philosophical ques- LCD monitors. Filmed in the lapse of five years, sented in the shadows. tal construction; my artistic practice is used as a tion; are the political borders none other that lines moving images of crowds in public spaces are tool to decipher the laws that govern the world I in our imagination? In LANDSCAPE_OF_BELIEF distorted through a lens; treated as a canvas, the Illusion: The perception of reality as an image. live in. With this inquiry, I create objects by incor- (2012), I built skylines of cities out of text (Italo “video” format is then cut and paste weaving lay- THE_VORTEX , (2007) The object of our perception porating still, moving images, sound and interac- Calvino’s Invisible cities), where I question how ers of different periods and places resulting in a is not reality in itself, but an illusion of images we tivity to generate situations where I can material- we construct and limit our lives according to our color field composition of intervals of time within a have created. A metaphor to the practice of con- ize and communicate my emotional state. I want belief systems. More recently, in WEAVING_TIME, space. 2014 TIME WILL TELL Queens _PS-IS 314 templation as a way to understand our distorted to challenge the audience’s own perception of 2013, the idea of weaving as text, as an abstract Commissioned by Public Art for Public Schools at reality. what they consider real by generating a platform and ancient language used by all primitive cul- New York City SCA. A series of large panels (13) where they are induced to connect by exploring, tures to connect, depict and define their relation- that will suspend on the Atrium & float outside a Medium|Materiality: questioning the rigidity and interacting and at times by focusing on an object- ship to nature, In which, the thread, the loom, the hallway, These Panels depict the transformation limitation of techniques and methods; running place-scene for a duration of time in a manner act of weaving takes form using the immateriality of space, from landscape to cityscape, shaped away from definitions, the tangible representa- that is both meditative and investigative.