Azul De Monte
1988*, Berlin, Germany
My name is Azul De Monte (she/they). I am a visual artist from Buenos Aires, currently based in Berlin. I work across animation, drawing, sound, and writing, often combining these media into time-based works. My practice explores how meaning is produced, fixed and repeated through language, objects, and everyday gestures. I am particularly interested in acts that appear harmless or neutral—such as making a promise— and in unfolding their emotional, political, and structural implications. By isolating these gestures, I explore how they connect to larger systems of hierarchy, control, and exclusion.
Alongside my artistic practice, I work as a visual designer and animator on 3D reconstructions of war crimes and crimes against humanity for human rights organizations and independent researchers. This experience influenced my attention to responsibility and ethics of representation, influencing how I approach storytelling, abstraction, and care within my art.
Animation is a tool that allows objects and concepts to become fluid, unstable, and performative. I am also interested in using objects as characters capable of acting against their expected roles. At the core of my work is storytelling as a way of creating empathy with non-human entities and listening to what they reveal about our world. Animation becomes a filter through which reality can be reimagined, questioned, and momentarily reorganized.