Tangent Projects Studio Residency Winter/Spring 2021
From January to April 2021 we were joined by Maria Monegro, Charlotte Nordgren-Sewell and Jorge Sanchez, they were at Tangent Projects Studios between mid-January to mid-April 2021.
The selection team were Elin Lindecrantz, Lucia Retamar and Marina Rubio.
Maria Monegro is a Caribbean painter currently based in Catalunya. She creates portraits in landscapes, exploring the weight of bodies in them.
Her work investigates the themes of the erotic, love, sex, trauma and her imaginary of the Caribbean. She wishes to create safe spaces for female bodies in her paintings. Her practice is focused on creating mid to large scale paintings as well as drawings.
Born and raised in the Dominican Republic. She graduated from the Altos de Chavón School of Design (2012) and Parsons the New School for Design, New York (2014).
She has participated in residencies such as Tangent Projects (Barcelona) and Raro Barcelona. She is a member of La Escocesa in Barcelona.
Charlotte Nordgren-Sewell is a British-Swedish artist living and working in Barcelona. She graduated from Goldsmiths College with an MA in Art and Politics.
She has participated in study programs on Latin American Politics at El Colegio de Mexico and Studio Arts at Metáfora Studio Arts in Barcelona. Her current investigation Touch Me Tender is dedicated to exploring the mythologies and cultural histories surrounding the image of the teddy/bear.
Using textiles, writing, video and soft sculpture, her practice stitches together archival research, colonial histories, fairytales and personal narratives. She is also a co-founding member of the art and politics collective Herederas de Lilith, whose work includes the organisation of socially engaged exhibitions, events and art educational projects. She was selected as a resident artist on the JAI program at Tabakalera (San Sebastian) in 2020, and in 2021 she has been artist in residence at Tangent Projects (Barcelona) before being awarded a full grant for a residency at Can Serrat (El Bruc).
At Tangent Projects, Charlotte worked on her project Love you to death, which traced the history of the ‘I love you’ toy in capitalist commodity culture, specifically via the idea of the feminised automata. This culminated in a series of medievalfuture drawings and sculptures based on the stories of medieval robot design.
Jorge Sánchez is a Puerto Rican artist and writer. Jorge obtained a scholarship from MACBA to participate in the Independent Studies Program (PEI) in 2019.
His writings have been published in La Revista del Instituto de Cultura de Puerto Rico, Anomaly Journal in its edition 'Radical: Avant Garde Poets of Color' , the Queens Museum, Journal of New Jersey Poets, among others. Together with Camilo Godoy, he edited 'Reté' in São Paulo, Brazil with Yvonne Rainer, Carlos Martiel, Vivian Crockett, Tania Bruguera, Patricia Hoffbauer, Carlos Motta and Jonathas de Andrade, among others.
In 2019, he managed the creative studio of the visual and political artist Tania Bruguera. He is a member of the artistic collectives 'queer-crisis' and 'undetectable,' both facilitated by Avram Finkelstein, artist of the collective 'ACT UP' and 'Gran Fury.'
Jorge currently has a studio at La Escocesa as part of the art collective lxs sexi-liadxs with artists Diego Posada and Lizette Nin.
To coincide with Maria, Charlotte and Jorge’s end of residency project, Entendemos Juntas, we collaborated with Trio Editorial to produce a zine publication of the same name - click here to see Maria, Charlotte and Jorge’s zine or visit Tangent Projects to pick up your free printed copy.