MONICA TOLIA
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      • Chalton Gallery for Art Night (June 2019)
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The present past, door guardians & benign monsters
2026, Soft Sculpture

Dimensions (cm): 150h x 120l x 100d​
Materials: Corsetry hard mesh, boning, and recycled fabric & parts from child’s pop-up tent reformed into a bagua-shape. Quilted floor with embroidered figure & hair formed of Chinese Medicine roots & rhizomes used for hormonal regulation. Threshold sculpture made of silk jacquard holding bronze bell.




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Mending the heavens
2026, Hand-knit lace leaf, approx. 170cm.
​Materials: Titanium wire, Myanmar Jade and reflective glass beading.




​Research reference below:

Shanhaijing, Nüwa Mends the Heavens
Xiao Yuncong (1596-1673)
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2026, 
Quilted doorway hanging 76W x 60H. 
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Materials:  Spirit figures composed of various interlocking pankou knots, mounted on quilted fabric backdrop of reflective fabric scraps, silk brocade, oilcloth and iridescent plastic trim

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Tying the Knot
2026, Dimensions (cm) 200l x 20w.
​Materials: Knitted tube from electrical LC wire connected through double coin knotting (the wealth knot), money gun with fake 100 dollar bills.

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​​©  2026  Monica Tolia

  • ABOUT
    • Bio & Contact
    • CV
  • PROJECTS
    • De-presencing
    • a snake in the house means the family will never want
    • Sound Perceivers
    • FU Salon
    • Liquid Dreams
    • HAVE YOU EATEN YET? >
      • LUNAR LATE: Year of the Queer Rabbit
      • NIAN is here! 年到了
      • Lunar New Year Festival 2022
      • Deptford X Festival 2021: Have you eaten yet?
      • ABOUT 你吃了吗
    • How to be together again - Residency
    • Flora / Fauna / Machina >
      • Chalton Gallery for Art Night (June 2019)
      • Gossamer Fog (January 2019)
    • Technologies of Lived Abstraction: FUTURE PRESENT >
      • FUTURE PRESENT 2
      • FUTURE PRESENT 1
    • BioSonics
    • Synchronic (In)visibility
  • SOUNDS