MONICA RIVAS VELASQUEZ
Noticeboards and large scale drawing
VENUE
3. OSR Projects, West Coker
Fri 23 – Sat 24 May, 10am – 5pm
Sun 25 May, 10 am – 4pm
And various noticeboards in East and West Coker
Articulating interwoven narratives at the intersection of climate breakdown, ecological resilience, political and personal histories, Rivas Velásquez’s work addresses the currents that drive resistance to historical memory. In this new collage series, developed for Od Arts Festival, the work explores a re-composition of the gaps, glitches and failures that emerge from those very attempts to name and represent our encounters with nature and the botanical world.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Mónica Rivas Velásquez is a Colombian artist and researcher. Her practice traces ideas of encounter and relation through expanded notions of drawing, embodied narratives and the coming together of image, text and voice. Her work explores the fragmented experience of national identities placed under erasure by violence and environmental destruction. Iterations of her latest project (AHRC funded PhD), I Want To Write To You Like Someone Learning, have been exhibited, published and performed, among others, in Theatrum Mundi’s, JOAN publishing, Café Oto, London, South London Botanical Institute, Stanley Picker Gallery, London, ICA London, Omved Gardens, London, Radiophrenia Glasgow, Clouds and Tracks, FieldNotes Journal Audio, Resonance FM.