GUIDED TOUR OF THE EXHIBITION 'PULGAR' WITH ARTIST MÓNICA MAYS AND CURATOR CRISTINA ANGLADA
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Reduced mobility
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Artist Mónica Mays (Madrid, 1990) presents a new series of sculptures tracing paths of memory and combustion from Ribera de Curtidores to Nave 0, where refrigeration, the instrumentalization of the body, and fire collide within the architecture of the exhibition space. She will be joined on the tour by the exhibition’s curator, Cristina Anglada.
Mónica Mays’ practice spans sculpture and installation, interweaving autobiography, material process, and the historical archive. Her works take the form of assemblages that resemble animated domestic objects, overflowing, distorted, or caught in processes of transmutation.
After studying Cultural Anthropology at the University of New Orleans, Mays graduated cum laude from the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg in 2015 and completed a master’s degree at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam in 2017. She has developed projects through artist residencies including Rupert (Vilnius), Fundación Bilbao Arte (Bilbao, Spain), Matadero Madrid, and the Cemeti Institute for Art and Society (Yogyakarta, Indonesia).
Her work has been shown at venues such as Teatro Frascati (Amsterdam), Tallinn Art Hall (Tallinn), Punt WG (Amsterdam), Blue Velvet Projects (Zurich), CentroCentro (Madrid), KUBUS (Hannover), Industra (Brno), and Atelier Chiffonier (Dijon, France).
Mays recently received the Illy Art Prize ARCO 2024 and was nominated for the NN Art Award 2024. Other distinctions include the 3PD Prize awarded by the Amsterdam Arts Fund in 2022, the Mondriaan Fonds Young Artist Stipendium 2023, and the Generation 2022 Award from Fundación Montemadrid.