Clara Montoya
– casa wabi 2022
Community Project
The project Plantoteca | aimed to create a living sculpture with pedagogical elements that references brick manufacturing while emphasizing the importance of knowledge about plant cultivation and botany in general. It also highlights the understanding of nature as culture. Using a modular structure consisting of 50 specifically designed bricks, it is installed with an irrigation system and serves to support the teaching of various classes offered at the University of Well-Being in the Tropical Diversity Systems Engineering program in Río Grande.
Spain
Lives and works in Madrid
She works with a wide range of techniques and formats, always from a sculptural point of view. Investigate the narratives built in science and in society, expanding and modifying the perception of the environment through modular pieces, collective actions, material metamorphoses.
Experimentation is an indispensable part of her artistic practice.
She received a BA from Chelsea College Art and an MA from the Royal College of Art, London, where she received the Thames and Hudson/RCA Award for Excellence in Sculpture.
She has enjoyed residencies, scholarships and awards, including the Marcelino Botín Foundation, the Citè Internationale des Arts (Paris), The Cooper Union (New York), the Royal Academy of Spain in Rome and the Junge Akademie der Kunste (Berlin). , proposed by Mona Hatoum.
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