Carmen Mardonez

Monumental Threads: The Sensation of Scale in Contemporary Fiber | Saturday, February 7, 2PM EST

Carmen Mardonez (1988) is a Chilean textile artist who recently arrived in Oxford UK from Los Angeles where she lived since 2017. Her artwork seeks to radically reimagine intimate spaces of memories, dreams, and discovery, exploring variations around traditional embroidery by combining oversized formats, textile sculpture and the recovery of textile waste. 

Using bed sheets and pillows, she seeks to connect with these radically intimate spaces that store memories of exploration, discovery, and suffering. These textile objects have witnessed the materialized, embodied repression, byproduct of centuries of indoctrination we have experienced as women through history. But even more importantly, they are the space of our wildest dreams, utopias of liberation and sisterhood.

Carmen studied History and Arts in the Catholic University of Chile, and holds a master’s degree in Community Psychology at the University of Chile. Her work has been exhibited in the US, Europe and UK. Carmen has received the support of several grants, scholarships, and art residencies, including a fully funded four-months art residency in Quinn Emanuel, Los Angeles.