A visual artist, MÔNICA NADOR graduated in fine arts from FAAP and has a master’s degree from ECA-USP. In 2004 she founded Jardim Miriam Arte Clube (JAMAC) in São Paulo, a cultural venue where she lives and develops her work alongside the local community. Her main exhibitions include the biennials of São Paulo (1993 and 2006), Havana (2000), Sydney (2004), Gwangju, South Korea (2012) and Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo (2015), among others.
IMAGENS DE MAKWATCHA (2014-2019). There is a tradition of mural painting in Makwatcha, a city near Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. They are made by women with locally developed natural pigments. Invited to take part of the 4th Lubumbashi Biennial, the artist proposed developing with the community a project similar to the one she runs at Jardim Miriam Arte Club (JAMAC), in São Paulo, focusing on education and income generation through culture. The prints that make up the work are the result of this partnership, documented by the Congolese photographer Georges Senga.
DANDO BANDEIRA (2019). The faces of women who played leading roles in Latin American history are printed on flags spread around the space. The installation is an exercise of visibility and memory of those women, and aims to acknowledge presences excluded from a colonial grammar composed of supposedly neutral and universalizing world views, but which is exclusively linked to the construction of monuments that are white, male, cisgender, heterosexual and hegemonic.
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