Mónica Félix
Bio: Mónica Félix (b. 1984) is an interdisciplinary artist, professional photographer and yoga instructor born and raised in Puerto Rico. She has a BA in Communications from the University of Puerto Rico, a Photography Certificate from Pratt Institute, and an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University. Her work is a personal narrative about the migration of one female body, specifically, the colonized, questioned, and compromised corners of this traveled life. She continues to search for an honest identity perspective exploring the visual aspects of her experience through photography, video, installation, writing, and performance.
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement:
In the deepest part of el mar Caribe,
There stood a submarine Isla
Visión ahogada
Home to a widowed sea-man
Six daughters and their Abuela
Six Hermanas, six Sirenas
Above all things, las Sirenas liked to gaze at
the glows of luz that came from the surface
from alláfuera
Alláfuera (or otherwise the United States), (Dimensions Variable, Three-channel video with sound, LED lights, found sea-glass and sea-objects from the coast of Puerto Rico and New York City, 2021)
