Priscilla Monge. Matters of life or death

Priscilla Monge’s work has often been included in the post-conceptual scene of Latin America in the nineteen-nineties, but it should be borne in mind that during that time neither Costa Rica nor the region of Central America to which it belongs featured on the maps of internationally renowned Latin American art.

Her works lie somewhere between the meaningful dimensions of the verbal and the visual of signs and representations. As she herself said: ‘They are found in a fractal space, that space between the word and image and vice versa. This is the extreme where art generates a safe space, of spiritual quest and probably change.’

The exhibition brings together works from all of her different stages, stressing those which have a special social significance, inviting us to look at her work as anticipating and influencing the female preoccupations in everyday life that prevail today.