“A Strange Kind of Urn I” 2024


Artist Bio

Vitória Monteiro aka veto (b. Brazil)  is an artist and cultural worker based in the unseeded territories of the sḵwx̱wú7mesh, sel̓íl̓witulh, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm nations, or Vancouver. Their work has been exhibited at Artspeak Gallery (2024), CityScape Community ArtSpace (2023), Mónica Reyes Gallery (2022), Massy Arts Society (2022), among others. veto holds a BFA from Simon Fraser University and is the current Board President of grunt gallery as well as the Artistic Engagement Director at WePress Community Arts Space.


Artist Statment

veto's practice investigates the materiality of language through papermaking, sculpture, and textual intervention. They navigate the spaces where information dwells, creating work that positions rest and liminality as sites of resistance against productivity-driven systems. Working primarily with cotton linters and repurposed materials, veto engages in a citational process that absorbs, transforms, and recontextualizes influences from Brazilian literary movements. Their installations function as counter-archives, exploring how meaning can exist in realms that are silent, inarticulate, and abstract. Beyond conventional structures of fluency and legibility, they seek to provide new containers for knowledge to co-exist. This approach extends to veto's community practice, where they center accessible, gentle and joyful ways of being. By reimagining cultural spaces through the lens of care, play, and collective support, veto roots these shifts as necessary acts of resistance.


Email: vitoriamont4@gmail.com

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