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24/3/2009

Priscilla Monge

Luis Adelantado Valencia, Valencia

The Costa Rican artist Priscilla Monge (1968 San José, Costa Rica) presents in this, her second show at the Gallery in Valencia, a selection of her last projects, in which different medias and forms of expression are included: Photographs from different series like "Ana", sculptures with intervened school desks, a new installation of blackboards and an approach to painting with the fabrics stamped with blood.

"Priscilla Monge is interested in the strategies of power: Who ́s got it? Who haven ́t got it? and also how it is expressed in the most ordinary aspects of our daily lives. She delights in upsetting our expectations, forcing us to think about what is, and what is not acceptable in our society, and also about who makes those unspoken rules.

We expect walls to be made of bricks, but how do we react if, instead of bricks, we find sanitary towels? What if beautiful embroidery, spells out not a blessing, but a violent curse? ¿What if a writing desk is transformed into an engraved tombstone with violent signs? Her makeup painted and manipulated dolls as raped puppets, a central issue of the exhibition, are shown with a perpetual grimace of joyfulness, that reminds us of the photo collage of the dadaist artist, Hannah Höch.

Yet although Monge takes a closer look at the often harsh realities hidden beneath the surface of everyday life, she does so with sharp wit and extraordinary humor. Renowned for her participation in the 49 Biennial of Venice, where she used sanitary towels in her works, Priscilla Monge has undertaken questions related to the problems of women. Some times in an explicit way and other times flanking subtly those matters, the violence, the isolation and the confrontation between the intimate and the public, are common themes in her works.

Opening March 25th from 8 to 10 pm

Luis Adelantado Valencia
Calle Bonaire 6, Valencia

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