SHORT FICTION
Little Dreams — Part 4: “Mo Mulwray”
Letters From A Lost Coast
“No, I’m not afraid to disappear
The billboard said, ‘The end is near’
I turned around, there was nothing there
Yeah, I guess the end is here.”
— Phoebe Bridgers
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An Artist’s Bio
From the inside cover of an art exhibition brochure, it reads:
Kingfisher Gallery presents:
Monica Ochoa Mulwray (American, b. 1989)
Mo Mulwray’s unerringly candid and visceral art is one of disclosure. Disarming and intimate, universal in its relevance, her work draws on the fundamental themes of desire, the patriarchy and grief. Through relentless self-exploration, her approach unravels in the process the nuanced constructs of ‘gender’ and ‘identity’.
Mulwray’s practice includes sculpture, installation, drawing, video, sewn appliqué, and neon, all of which are transformed into highly personalised mediums for her singular voice. The genres of self-portraiture and the nude depict her likeness in many different contexts as various imagined characters, each intricately bound with the anxiety-fueled…
