Rama Torcida
MAC (Museum of Contemporary Art)•Apr 25, 2026 — Aug 23, 2026
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Paulina Mellado is an artist who touches the landscape. Looking at the trajectory of her work, it seems to me that she began from sculptural methodologies that resemble the way a bird builds its nest (or relates vitally to its environment). Always gathering sticks and branches, weaving them together with fibers and wires, tangling hair into them. In some way, the constructive references that interest her seem rooted in the ways birds engage materially with the landscape: a twig fallen from a tree, dry grass, a loose strand.
Nature, and we ourselves, as a species and part of it, are in a state of crisis. The landscape is no longer a reality altered only by the passing of the seasons. The world is heating from within; the particles of living matter accelerate, distorting the possibilities of the world’s material and organic future. If Impressionist painters could observe the landscape from a distance, it seems that the current state of catastrophe always places us within…
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Rama Torcida
MAC (Museum of Contemporary Art)•Apr 25, 2026 — Aug 23, 2026
Press Release
Rama torcida*
Paulina Mellado is an artist who touches the landscape. Looking at the trajectory of her work, it seems to me that she began from sculptural methodologies that resemble the way a bird builds its nest (or relates vitally to its environment). Always gathering sticks and branches, weaving them together with fibers and wires, tangling hair into them. In some way, the constructive references that interest her seem rooted in the ways birds engage materially with the landscape: a twig fallen from a tree, dry grass, a loose strand.
Nature, and we ourselves, as a species and part of it, are in a state of crisis. The landscape is no longer a reality altered only by the passing of the seasons. The world is heating from within; the particles of living matter accelerate, distorting the possibilities of the world’s material and organic future. If Impressionist painters could observe the landscape from a distance, it seems that the current state of catastrophe always places us within…
















































