Paulina
Dusk, 2025
Ceramic
48 x 36 inches

Dusk is a ceramic piece with an image captured by folding the clay and firing it in this form. It is part of a series of essays seeking to understand the nature of the Andean mountain and color as interiority.

Paulina uncovers subjects of landscape as containers of meaning, drawing questions about placehood and personhood while gradually reconsidering and revisiting ecosystems. Moncada works across painting, sculpture, and installation to portray fragile and inconspicuous encounters between human and non-human life. Her roots are planted in the entangled Andean Tropics, a place where absence and presence become signs of possibility. Tropical nature enters Paulina’s practice as a language of reciprocity, correspondence and reverberation. Through speculation about the function of the artistic object she invites the viewer to preserve mysteries instead of solving them.

www.paulinamoncada.com