Natalia Mejia Murillo, "Celestial map"
Woodcut printed in cotton paper 23 x 11 inches 2022.
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BIO
Colombian artist who currently lives in Richmond, United States. Mejia is Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master in History and Theory of Art from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She is currently pursuing her MFA at Virginia Commonwealth. She has obtained multiple scholarships, residences and merits, among which the following stand out: Artist residency at the MünchnerKünstlerhaus (2021 - Germany); Artist residency at Fundación Joan Miró and La Casa de Velázquez (2020 - Spain); Artist residency award at the 18th Biennale Internationale de la Gravure of Sarcelles, France (2017) and the Colombia-Mexico Artist Residency(2016). In 2019 she was nominated for the Award Salón de Arte Joven of the Giberto Alzate Foundation. Mejia has exhibited her work in Colombia, Spain, Poland, Mexico and the US. Her publications include: Efemérides cotidianas (2020) and Atlas del centro deBogotá (2019). Her work is in the collections of the Kunstmuseum Reutlingen, Fundació Joan Miró, Spain and private collections in Colombia and the United States.
STATEMENT
Through media such as printmaking, drawing and installation, my work explores the perception and experience of the territory, as well as the containment and representation systems through cartography. I understand maps as devices through which we can approach unknown territory; a “portable” and simplified image of a complex space that we can cover with our eyes and contain in our hands. I reflect on concepts such as scale, time, distance and the reference systems used by science to describe and understand our place on earth. My recent research deals with the distortion of reality and fiction in cartographic representations and how they are presented to us as useful, reliable and accurate images of a territory. Images that are at the same time instruments of power and domination. One of the questions that has guided my work is: What is our “Terra Incognita” today? Under this concern, I focus my artistic practice as an exercise in cartography, in which fiction dialogues with the representation systems used in astronomy, geography and archaeology.
Woodcut printed in cotton paper 23 x 11 inches 2022.
SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED. PLEASE CONTACT INFO@COLLARWORKS.ORG FOR A SHIPPING ESTIMATE.
BIO
Colombian artist who currently lives in Richmond, United States. Mejia is Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master in History and Theory of Art from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She is currently pursuing her MFA at Virginia Commonwealth. She has obtained multiple scholarships, residences and merits, among which the following stand out: Artist residency at the MünchnerKünstlerhaus (2021 - Germany); Artist residency at Fundación Joan Miró and La Casa de Velázquez (2020 - Spain); Artist residency award at the 18th Biennale Internationale de la Gravure of Sarcelles, France (2017) and the Colombia-Mexico Artist Residency(2016). In 2019 she was nominated for the Award Salón de Arte Joven of the Giberto Alzate Foundation. Mejia has exhibited her work in Colombia, Spain, Poland, Mexico and the US. Her publications include: Efemérides cotidianas (2020) and Atlas del centro deBogotá (2019). Her work is in the collections of the Kunstmuseum Reutlingen, Fundació Joan Miró, Spain and private collections in Colombia and the United States.
STATEMENT
Through media such as printmaking, drawing and installation, my work explores the perception and experience of the territory, as well as the containment and representation systems through cartography. I understand maps as devices through which we can approach unknown territory; a “portable” and simplified image of a complex space that we can cover with our eyes and contain in our hands. I reflect on concepts such as scale, time, distance and the reference systems used by science to describe and understand our place on earth. My recent research deals with the distortion of reality and fiction in cartographic representations and how they are presented to us as useful, reliable and accurate images of a territory. Images that are at the same time instruments of power and domination. One of the questions that has guided my work is: What is our “Terra Incognita” today? Under this concern, I focus my artistic practice as an exercise in cartography, in which fiction dialogues with the representation systems used in astronomy, geography and archaeology.
Woodcut printed in cotton paper 23 x 11 inches 2022.
SHIPPING IS NOT INCLUDED. PLEASE CONTACT INFO@COLLARWORKS.ORG FOR A SHIPPING ESTIMATE.
BIO
Colombian artist who currently lives in Richmond, United States. Mejia is Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master in History and Theory of Art from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. She is currently pursuing her MFA at Virginia Commonwealth. She has obtained multiple scholarships, residences and merits, among which the following stand out: Artist residency at the MünchnerKünstlerhaus (2021 - Germany); Artist residency at Fundación Joan Miró and La Casa de Velázquez (2020 - Spain); Artist residency award at the 18th Biennale Internationale de la Gravure of Sarcelles, France (2017) and the Colombia-Mexico Artist Residency(2016). In 2019 she was nominated for the Award Salón de Arte Joven of the Giberto Alzate Foundation. Mejia has exhibited her work in Colombia, Spain, Poland, Mexico and the US. Her publications include: Efemérides cotidianas (2020) and Atlas del centro deBogotá (2019). Her work is in the collections of the Kunstmuseum Reutlingen, Fundació Joan Miró, Spain and private collections in Colombia and the United States.
STATEMENT
Through media such as printmaking, drawing and installation, my work explores the perception and experience of the territory, as well as the containment and representation systems through cartography. I understand maps as devices through which we can approach unknown territory; a “portable” and simplified image of a complex space that we can cover with our eyes and contain in our hands. I reflect on concepts such as scale, time, distance and the reference systems used by science to describe and understand our place on earth. My recent research deals with the distortion of reality and fiction in cartographic representations and how they are presented to us as useful, reliable and accurate images of a territory. Images that are at the same time instruments of power and domination. One of the questions that has guided my work is: What is our “Terra Incognita” today? Under this concern, I focus my artistic practice as an exercise in cartography, in which fiction dialogues with the representation systems used in astronomy, geography and archaeology.