Manos que pintan, a film by
Rithwick Chary

Monica Curiel is a multidisciplinary artist and designer working sculpturally with plaster and spackling paste across relief painting, art objects, sculptural furniture, and lighting. Introduced to these materials through early exposure to construction environments, she approaches them as both medium and subject, exploring their physical properties across form and function. Each work develops through a dialogue between her hand and the material. By recontextualizing materials typically associated with utility, she creates works that engage perception, space, and use, positioning function as an extension of sculptural form while shifting how these materials are understood and experienced.