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The Mundo I Imagine - VCUArts MFA Thesis Exhibition

Text from exhibition:

With your eyes closed, deep in thought, you are able to create realities from within. The Mundo I Imagine actualizes just such an imaginary landscape through craft. Ceramic symbols, woven masks, and 3D-printed clay all float from the ground up. For Kika, Mundo is an emancipatory reality, a peaceful environment founded on self-love, connection, and healing with souls and houses gathered in a spiral. Clouds of thought manifest in the sky forming words that are read like smoke.

Spiral of creation, 2026

Red ceramic slabs, acrylics, spray paint

Clouds of thought, 2026

Red ceramic slabs, acrylics

Meditation mask (Self love), 2026

Wood, round reed, fringe

Meditation mask (Connection), 2026

Rattan reed, eucalyptus, aventurine stone, gold wire, thread, flowers

Meditation mask (Healing), 2026

3D-printed porcelain, round reed, gauze

Text from the VCU ICA website:

The 2026 VCUarts MFA Thesis Exhibition will premiere cutting-edge works from twenty-eight emerging artists and designers, representing the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts departments of Craft/Material Studies, Graphic Design, Kinetic Imaging, Painting + Printmaking, Photography + Film, and Sculpture + Extended Media.

Presented over two rounds at the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU’s Markel Center, the thesis exhibition is the culmination of two years of intensive research and practice, showcasing the creativity, dynamism, exploration, and invention that make VCUarts one of the nation’s leading schools of art and design.

This exhibition was curated by Egbert Vongmalaithong, assistant curator of the ICA, and guest curator Taylor Jasper, Susan and Rob White Associate Curator of Visual Arts of the Walker Art Center. The exhibition identity was designed by Charles O’Leary.

My written thesis for this exhibition installation is available for free at the VCU library website:

The Mundo I Imagine

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