Monica Piloni

Monica Piloni, born in Curitiba, Brazil in 1978, lives and works in Brussels, Belgium.
She graduated from the Sculpture Course at the School of Music and Fine Arts of Paraná (EMBAP) in 2002. Among her solo shows in Brazil, stand out “Dissident Symmetries”, Sorocaba Contemporary Art Museum (2022), “Humans, All Too Human” (2022) and “Cyclo” (2019), both in Zipper Gallery, São Paulo and “Both Odd”, Laura Marsiaj Gallery, Rio de Janeiro (2013). Furthermore, the artist participated in group exhibitions in major institutions in Brazil and abroad. 

Observing her work as a whole, Piloni’s fascination with the representation of the female figure becomes clear. What originally started from the self-portrait became, over time, a symbolic portrait of all women. Art as a collective narrative, according to Piloni also an impulse for social change. 

Construction and mirroring are recurring elements in Piloni’s work. In this way, the artist deforms the body to expand the perception of what the physical figure can be, making it as attractive as it is repulsive. The artist’s creatures, which although always composed of parts of the human body, also refer to mythological figures or demons, come to life in different media. The main medium in which her ‘beings’ exist is sculpture, but Piloni also manipulates them physically, virtually, through photography, animated, mounted on a pedestal or as part of an installation, all while exploring different materials such as bronze, marble, ceramic, fiberglass and plastic.