Mónica Rivas Velásquez is a colombian artist and researcher living and working in London. Her practice traces ideas of encounter and relation through expanded notions of drawing, embodied narratives and the coming together of image, text and voice. Her work explores the fragmented experience of national identities placed under erasure by violence and environmental destruction.

With an iterative nature, Rivas Velásquez’s practice operates as a series of long-term projects under which artworks manifest as single works, public readings, installations and publications. 



contact
 
@monicarivasvelasquez







 
LA SEMILLA OSCURA / THE DARK SEED
(2024 – ongoing)


OD ARTS FESTIVAL: THINKING IN CIRLCES
11 collages printed as posters, displayed on noticeboards across West and East Coker, a wall drawing and a reading-performance. Somerset, UK, 2025 

Warbling, 2023

 


I WANT TO WRITE TO YOU LIKE SOMEONE LEARNING: A decolonial exploration at a time of climate emergency
2019 – 2024


EL TRABAJO DEL AGUA / WATER’S WORK
Script (2023)
DANCE ACROSS THE CARPETED FLOOR, PLEASE book publication, JOAN (2024)


NOT A GARDEN
Performative reading and collages, 2022

Brighton University, 2023
Nietzsche’s Natures—Nietzsche Documentation Center
(NDZ),2022
New Art School, 2022
Group show: Quiet Growing Patterns, Dial-A-Ride, 7 Ravenscroft Street, London, 2022
FIELDNOTES: SLOW COMPRESSION Café Oto, London, 2022
FieldNotes Journal Audio, Resonance FM, 2022
’The Wild Collective’ Omved Gardens, 2022


MORE THAN AN OBJECT ITS SHADOW
Performative reading and collage series, 2019/2021

Norwich University, 2024
Brighton University, 2023
Nietzsche’s Natures—Nietzsche Documentation Center (NDZ) (2022)
New Art School, 2022
Artlicks TV, 2020
The Hold, Stanley Picker Gallery, 2019



THIS IS WHY THE SHADOW IDEA IS USEFUL
7min, sound-work and diagrams, 2021

Norwich University, 2024
Brighton University, 2023
Nietzsche’s Natures– Nietzsche Documentation Center (NDZ) in
Naumburg, 2022
New Art School, 2022
Radiophrenia Glasgow-Broadcasts, 2022
Clouds and Tracks, 2021


(frailejón)
3m Film, published text and performance, 2021

A Love Affair book publication and performance, House of Annetta, London, 2023
A Love Affair – Theatrum Mundi’s Newsletter (2021)
I WANT TO WRITE TO YOU LIKE SOMEONE LEARNING part I and II
2015 – 2019



These two exchange limbs- South London Botanical Institute, curated by Laura Plant, 2019

(Probably) no images are utterly silent- Project space commission and reading group, Pumphouse Gallery, London 2018

(Probably) no images are utterly silent - UAL lecture, Camberwell College of Arts, 2018

With over 450 illustrations_Slow Reveal (Frances Scott, Anna Lucas and Leanne Turvey) - 3 Ravenscroft Street, London, 2017

Part II - Flat 4, London, 2017

Part I - 3 Ravenscroft Street, London, 2015