Mónica Rivas Velásquez

MÓNICA RIVAS VELÁSQUEZ is an artist working with drawing, collage, text and performance. Articulating interwoven narratives at the intersection of climate breakdown, ecological resilience, political and personal histories, her work is concerned with the currents that drive resistance to historical memory.

I WANT TO WRITE TO YOU LIKE SOMEONE LEARNING 2018 - 2025 (AHRC-funded PhD, Kingston University)

Constellation of artworks composed of texts, drawing and collage, performance and soundworks, developed between 2018 and 2025, exploring the unearthing of historical erasures and interrogating ways of learning through an autobiographical narrative of encounters with the plant frailejón and its ecosystem the páramo.

I WANT TO WRITE TO YOU LIKE SOMEONE LEARNING 2018 - 2025

Epping, drawing on paper 2025
Brugmansia, watercolour on paper 2023

LA SEMILLA OSCURA / THE DARK SEED, 2025

A series of collages printed as posters, displayed on noticeboards across West and East Coker, a wall drawing and a reading exploring the re-composition of the gaps, frictions and failures that emerge from the attempt to name, represent and grasp through language our encounters with nature and the botanical world.

OD ARTS FESTIVAL: THINKING IN CIRLCES,
23-25 May, 2025. Somerset, UK.

LA SEMILLA OSCURA /
THE DARK SEED, 2025

OD ARTS FESTIVAL: THINKING IN CIRLCES, Somerset, UK 2025

Brugamansia / Mimosa
Collage, performance, projection 2017

I Want to Write To You Like Someone Learning 2015-2018
Artwork for foldable poster, 2017

Satellites, collages on paper, 2017