STATEMENT
Working across painted papers, thread and clay, I explore materialities and visual narratives that investigate subjectivity and emotion. Each character inhabiting my work functions as an introspective refuge, a layering of movements, feelings and actions that move through me.
My practice emerges from the fusion of graphic design, illustration and ceramics, forming a hybrid language in which collage serves as a central methodology: not merely as technique, but as a way of narrating the fragmentation of memory and identity through visual layers.
Texture runs through and unifies my entire body of work. In illustration, I work with thread and inks to build dense, tactile surfaces that become expressive matter in their own right. In ceramics, clay becomes a three-dimensional canvas where the graphic and the handmade converge, accumulating time, gesture and fragility in every layer.
MONI MATEOS