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Marta Ornelas Monteiro

MARTA ORNELAS MONTEIRO IS AN ARCHITECT TURNED MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST WORKING BETWEEN SCULPTURE AND NATURE-BASED ART PRACTICES. HER WORK EXPLORES THE LAYERED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BODY, MEMORY, AND NATURAL SYSTEMS, OFTEN DRAWING FROM ORGANIC TEXTURES, GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS, AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES.

THROUGH IMMERSIVE COMPOSITIONS AND MATERIAL EXPERIMENTATION, SHE INVESTIGATES HOW PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE HISTORIES ARE EMBEDDED IN PHYSICAL MATTER, ENGAGING WITH THEMES OF TRANSFORMATION AND TIME. HER PRACTICE IS GROUNDED IN THE EXPLORATION OF DIFFERENT STRATA OF EXISTENCE, EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN BODY, LANDSCAPE, MATERIALITY, AND TIME.

MARTA ORNELAS MONTEIRO'S WORK HAS BEEN FEATURED IN INTERNATIONAL PUBLICATIONS, INCLUDING AL-TIBA, CURATORY MAGAZINE AND URBANA. FOUNDER OF MERA ATELIER BASED IN PORTUGAL, SHE DEVELOPS WORK WITHIN AN INTERNATIONAL CONTEXT OF CONTEMPORARY ART.