BIOGRAPHY
Monserrat Muro is a Mexican visual artist living and based in Montréal, Canada. Merging her experiences in filmmaking, photography, and songwriting, Muro’s work draws on images from daily life, domestic interiors, fragments of songs and poetry, as well as her family archive. In her practice, Muro juxtaposes various media to transformative effect, piecing together disparate elements into atmospheric spaces that evoke memory, distance, speculation and longing.
CV
Canada Council of the Arts, Research and Creation grant, 2023-2024, Montréal, QC, Canada.
Morfología del Territorio, Topografía del Cuerpo, July 2023, Radio 28, Mexico City, Mexico.
Tabloide Project, image exhibited in a public context, October 2021, Montréal, QC, Canada
STATEMENT
Muro’s approach to art-making is both autobiographical and autofictional: an extension of a desire to explore roots and uncover buried narratives. Recently, she has focussed specifically on the women in her present life and in her family’s past, bringing to the foreground the matrilineal narratives and histories that have always informed her practice. In this work, Muro situates her subjectivity in relation to the experiences of other women and the traditions that have determined their capacity to exist and self-express. The resulting dialogue explores questions around memory: its storage within and movement between bodies, gestures, and objects.
Her most recent and ongoing work, I died once, is based on her engagement with family archives in Mexico, and research made through ancestry.com. The resulting project incorporates writing, music, and image-making to create sculptural assemblages of archival ephemera, photography, and folk songwriting. Through these works, Muro reinterprets and remakes her own history, furthering her long standing engagement with questions of migration, family, speculative history, identity, and kinetic memory.