Online Residency 2023
Bio
carolina muñoz awad is a multidisciplinary artist, based in Santiago, Chile. She completed a MFA in Fine Arts at Parsons School of Design in 2022 in New York, and graduated from a bachelor and master’s in architecture from the Pontificia Universidad Católica in 2018, in Chile. After architecture school, carolina worked in a couple of architecture studios, and then as a researcher for her former university and The National Fund for Scientific and Technological Development of Chile. She moved to NY in 2020, to complete her studies, and work as a studio assistant of renowned international artists, art handler, museum installer, and teaching artist. carolina has exhibited her work in Santiago, Albany, and New York City, and she has attended the Arts Letters & Numbers Residency in upstate, NY. She recently published an article about her work called “Un medio, el cuerpo. Un miedo, el cuerpo” in the Arts & Communication Journal of ACC Science Publishing.
Artist Statement
My work is a constant reclaim of my human body in space.
It is a reclaim because others claimed it for me before I was even born and continue to do so today. A reclaim in the positive outcome, where it is mine, and a reclaim in the not-so-positive one, when others want to own it.
With a background in biology and architecture, I have started to question what it is actually to use space, to be a volume, to be a self. I have no idea, and my work revolves around this question and its depurations, experimenting with the physicality of possible concepts. What is the connection between the material that holds us and language, and why does it feel so soothing to get covered by some of them or repeat your phone number on a loop.
As a continuous exercise, I plan on performative actions that test these ideas and curiosities, with very simple prompts, so that my own experience is not (too) biased. I have covered my body in compost, rice, tape–multiple times–, cream cheese, sand, just to feel again; that contact that has been imposed but not explained or opened to thought, at least not in my upbringing.