Moncada’s practice is rooted in the Andean mountains and the tropics, a type of landscape that folds and unfolds, hosting multiple semiotic processes. This environment expands the world by reflecting, multiplying, and transforming signs, a process that has bled into Moncada’s artistic practice. By creating staged and constructed images, she proposes self-aware scenarios that reveal the double nature of things, thereby opening up to other ideas of how the world could be.

Her images—interior spaces that look like exteriors; still lifes that resemble astronomical entities; machines that draw mountains—sit comfortably in the frontier of abstraction and representation while blending them together as well. This dual nature allows Moncada to oscillate between the precise and the accidental, using mediums that reveal or distance themselves from the artist’s hand. By drawing inspiration from non-human life, which silently teaches us how to dwell on mystery, her aim is the decantation of the invisible, not by inventing anything new, but rather, by pointing out what exists in the world already.