Recetas de Pájaro azul

Sandra Monterroso

BornNationalityBased In
1974GuatemalanGuatemala City
Biography

Sandra Monterroso’s work uses sophisticated strategies to point to historical moments of great tension. Using various languages such as performance or video, and various perspectives, Monterroso investigates and deepens ideas about personal, historical and colonial wounds. Her practice can be understood as an exercise of healing one’s own body and history or culture. Through her performative actions in which she includes sculpture, objects and installations, she projects her relationship with the sacred and how it manifests itself in a continuous mythical return, in contrast to the linearity proposed by a modern reading of reality. With a voice that resonates from her maternal lineage of Mayan Q’eq’chi culture, Sandra’s practice signals the symbolic, spiritual, social and political aspects that constantly alter contemporaneity. It is a timeless and polyphone discourse. Her reflections are directed towards an attempt to redefine her decolonized identity, for this reason her work makes a constant return to her geographical territory of origin, and she adopts and incorporates cultural elements of her ancestry through which she transforms her contemporary and contradictory condition. ...

Selected Artworks
Ellas mismas son trenza trompetas y glifos
Sandra Monterroso
Ellas mismas son trenza trompetas y glifos, 2024
180 x 180 x 16cm
Piel en distorsión
Sandra Monterroso
Piel en distorsión, 2017
156 x 28 x 28cm
Piel en sanción
Sandra Monterroso
Piel en sanción, 2017
104 x 48 x 33cm
Piel en imperfección
Sandra Monterroso
Piel en imperfección, 2011
156 x 28 x 28cm
Imperfecciones 6/ Imperfections 6
Sandra Monterroso
Imperfecciones 6/ Imperfections 6, 2019
138 x 183cm
La otra Línea Histórica
Sandra Monterroso
La otra Línea Histórica, 2017
15.5 x 844cm
Tejido 10/ Tissue 10
Sandra Monterroso
Tejido 10/ Tissue 10, 2019
80 x 60cm
Composiciones Orgánicas1/ Organic Compositions 1
Sandra Monterroso
Composiciones Orgánicas1/ Organic Compositions 1, 2019
20 x 20cm
Territorio de bifurcación
Sandra Monterroso
Territorio de bifurcación, 2020
80 x 60.5cm
Tejido 6/ Tissue 6
Sandra Monterroso
Tejido 6/ Tissue 6, 2020
80 x 80cm
Tejido 7/ Tissue 7
Sandra Monterroso
Tejido 7/ Tissue 7, 2020
80 x 60.5cm
Jikiliit
Composiciones Acuáticas 5/ Aquatic Compositions 5
Sandra Monterroso
Composiciones Acuáticas 5/ Aquatic Compositions 5, 2021
80 x 60.5cm
Jikiliit
Mujer ofrendando hilo No.2
Sandra Monterroso
Mujer ofrendando hilo No.2, 2021
156 x 26 x 16cm
Deshilada resiliencia
Sandra Monterroso
Deshilada resiliencia, 2017
90 x 45 x 45cm
Composición Azul No. 2
Sandra Monterroso
Composición Azul No. 2, 2019
78 x 65cm
Recetas de Pájaro azul
Sandra Monterroso
Recetas de Pájaro azul, 2023
168 x 50 x 20cm
Abuela ofrendando coral
Sandra Monterroso
Abuela ofrendando coral, 2023
171 x 38 x 31cm
Gallery Representation
Biennals
Venice Biennial2015 - Venice
Bienal de La Habana2015 - Havana
Bienal de La Habana2015 - Havana
Venice Biennial2015 - Venice
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