Paola Monzillo (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1986) explores cartographies and historical illustrations to question the supposed ideological neutrality of these devices. Trained in architecture and art, Monzillo reflects on territories as spaces of reconfiguration, investigating fissures and crossroads that give life to alternative fictions of representation. She has exhibited at the Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales (Montevideo), the Museo de Arte Moderno de Medellín (Colombia), the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Lima (Peru), the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Africano Al Maaden (Marrakech), among others. She participated in the Montevideo Biennial (2014), the Mercosur Biennial (2015) and the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of South America - BIENALSUR, (2017, 2019 and 2021). She received the FEFCA Justino Zavala Muniz Scholarship (2016) and the Eduardo Víctor Haedo Scholarship (2018). In 2021, she won the first Acquisition Prize of the 50th Montevideo Visual Arts Award. Lives and works in Montevideo.
During the FAARA residency, Paola Monzillo dedicated herself to perfecting weaving practices, connecting with local weavers, and tracing the supposed myth that the Palmar de Rocha was part of a vegetal corridor that extended to southern Africa when the current continents were part of Gondwana.