Mónica Vega

@lumlumlight

Mónica worked with Big Medium to realize the work shared here in Fusebox’s The It’s NOT Fair.

Title: Todas Las Banderas Fueron Hechas Para Verse / All Flags Were Made To Being Seen

Medium: mixed media

Description of the project: Flags are symbols made to be seen, and are ritualistic objects. This installation tries to take the observer to contemplation through the almost hypnotical repetitional movement of 3 flags made of translucent material that wave in the empty space.

Las banderas son símbolos hechos para ser vistos, son objetos ritualísticos. Esta instalación trata de llevar al observador a la contemplación a través del movimiento repetitivo, casi hipnótico de 3 banderas de material translúcido que ondean en el espacio vacío.

Bio: Mónica graduated from the school of architecture in 2008 in Monterrey, Mexico. In 2015 founded her lighting practice LumLum in México City, where she develops residential, hospitality, retail and cultural lighting projects.

In 2016 wins the research contest The Light Symposium Paper Competition, organized by Wismar University of Applied Sciences Technology, Business and Design. Since then, she mixes her professional practice with teaching, collaborating mainly with Centro de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and as guest teacher at universities as niversidad Anáhuac, ITESM, Universidad de Monterrey, CENTRO.

She has been a speaker at Illuminating Engineering Society e International Association of Lighting Designers

In 2018 exhibits There is no Place Like Home in La Cresta, Monterrey, México. In 2019 this piece got selected as a finalist in Lamp Awards in Barcelona, Spain. In 2020 presents a new work called This is the Now at the Contemporary Art Museum Juan Soriano in Cuernavaca, México.

Mónica works in lighting installations mixing natural and artificial light. Her main purpose is to share how light interacts with all materials and matter, how light travels through space and crashes with surfaces and how these materials reflect, contain and mold the light.

We are subject and object
Surface and observers

Thank you to Big Medium for sponsoring Vega’s work in the Art Cruise and The “It’s NOT” Fair.

Estudió arquitectura (CEDIM 2008, Monterrey, México) En 2014 funda LumLum, oficina de diseño de iluminación. Sus proyectos van desde los residenciales, hospitality, retail e instituciones culturales.

En 2016 ganó el concurso de investigación de iluminación The Light Symposium Paper Competition organizado por la Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas, Tecnología, Negocios y Diseño de Wismar, Alemania.

En 2018 exhibe No Hay Lugar Como el Hogar, pieza que queda como finalista en los Lamp Awards 2019. En 2020 exhibe en el Museo Morelense de Arte Contemporáneo This is The Now, la cuál forma parte de la muestra In-visible.

Mónica crea estas intervenciones, pensando en la interacción de la luz con los materiales, el viaje que hace la luz para llegar a las superficies y como estas la reflejan, contienen, moldean.

Somos sujeto y objeto

superficies y observadores.