Manos que pintan, a film by
Rithwick Chary

Monica Curiel is a sculptor and designer working across contemporary art and collectible design. She creates wall reliefs, furniture, lighting, and objects using plaster, spackling paste, and other familiar construction materials. Through her practice, Curiel traces the memories and histories carried by materials, labor, and inherited ways of making to understand how they shape identity. Illusion recurs throughout her work, giving construction materials qualities of softness and movement while allowing function to become an extension of sculptural form.