At the core of my practice is an exploration of human behavior and our entangled relationship with the environment. Against the backdrop of consumerism and ecological collapse, I investigate how we digest and metabolize the world we've created—physically, emotionally, and symbolically.

Materials play a central role in my work, not only for their formal qualities but also for the cultural and ecological weight they carry. By selecting and transforming discarded elements such as cardboard packaging, plastic, bubble wrap, paper, compost made from my own kitchen scraps, and photographs of the landscape, my work seeks to blur the boundaries between what we define as human and nonhuman, organic and synthetic, alive and inert. My approach invites viewers to confront the traces of consumption embedded in everyday matter while imagining new forms of coexistence.

My process is itself metabolic. I photograph the ground, tear and reshape those prints into new bodies, and return my own leftovers to the soil. Guided by research, experimentation, and a growing trust in intuition, I treat each work as one stage in a cycle of transformation rather than a finished object.

Bio

Based in Irvine, CA, Priscilla Mondo is a Brazilian multidisciplinary artist whose work is fueled by curiosity and material exploration. She earned her MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 2025. She also holds two BAs in Social Communication from Fluminense Federal University in Brazil, in Advertising (2011) and Journalism (2014), a background that shaped her critical perspective on how we consume the world—through natural resources, goods, culture, and media.

In 2025, she presented Metabolic Fictions, her solo MFA thesis exhibition, at Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles. Her work has been included in group exhibitions such as the SUR Biennial 2025 at Torrance Art Museum, the 21st Greater Los Angeles MFA Exhibition (GLAMFA) at Cal State Long Beach, NOMAD IV (a Torrance Art Museum pop-up), and the 41st Irvine Annual at Irvine Fine Arts Center, as well as group shows at BolskyGallery.