Mona Cara

Working at the intersection of tapestry and comic strips, Mona Cara weaves hybrid textile pieces that transform the chaos of the world into a gleeful apocalypse. In her exploration of the pictorial and sculptural potential of the warp and the weft, she combines traditional, manual craftsmanship with industrial techniques such as jacquard weaving, which makes it possible for her to programme complex patterns and diverse textures into the weave. Although Mona Cara works in the finest tradition of weaving, she seeks to disregard the mechanical and mathematical rigour of these techniques in favour of chance and surprise. With multiple references to pop culture, from Doctor Who to Peppa Pig, the artist chooses the more amusing, long-way round in tragi-comic pieces that interrogate the dysfunctions of contemporary society.