2025
CARMEN BARRUECO MIKELARENA
Carmen Barrueco Mikelarena (Madrid) is a multidisciplinary artist specialising in illustration, ceramics, comics and textiles. She graduated in Fine Arts at the Complutense University of Madrid, with stays at the University of Plymouth and the Universität der Künste Berlin. Subsequently, she studied a Master's Degree in Drawing and a Master's Degree in Teacher Training at the University of Granada.
Her project, ‘La habitación de las monstruas’, focuses on the margins as a counterculture of society from a feminist perspective, addressing the figure of women who define themselves as monsters in order to distance themselves from the male gaze. Through this community of women who dress as monsters as a protection mechanism, I seek to question the patriarchal gaze that defines the female body.