Mentalnoise

Born and raised in Caldas, a little town one hour away from Medellín, Colombia, Mentalnoise’s youth was conflictive. Under the gaze of a traditional Christian family, most of her identity has been denied or judged even by her inner circle. But when injustice constantly crosses you and hypocrisy prevails in the institutions of power claiming to dictate "the world's morality," there is a voice inside that emerges with more strength to fight against that impunity. No speech can overshadow what we see and feel every day when we go out on the street.

It's been two years since her first best-selling NFT came to light in a wonderfully friendly event on Tezos, Objkt4Objkt. This was an impulse and a revelation to understand her work had a place in a new market prepared to see and consume her art. Recently, she quit her job as a designer to fully dedicate herself to NFTs.

The quarantine ended up consolidating her artistic project as we know it today. Mobilized by the high flow of information during the isolation, Mental encountered several corruption cases in her country and a society that showed its different facets, from the most supportive to the cruelest. At that moment, the idea of the mask, the evil bunny, emerged as the structure and concept of her next pieces.

Committed to her country's political, social, and cultural reality, art allows her to express what moves her, denounce evils in society, raise her voice in social networks with impact, and generate critical thinking in the spectator. In her work, we discover references to Colombian popular culture, the media show generated by politicians, and the injustices surrounding us, added to her own internal universe, "the mental hole".

Mental says she likes "to generate images from the noise of my mind.” The windows function as an analogy for observing the outside world during isolation or a mobile phone connected to the internet in which we observe constant information as if it were a window to the world. We live with our own mental noise and externalize it in one way or another. In her case, art functions as that nexus that connects what happens emotionally inside her with an external world in constant contradiction.

Her journey has made her reflect on her place in the art world, the construction of her voice, and the empowerment of her message. In her pieces, every detail is thought out and shared with her peers to generate a sincere and honest debate. The questioning is not only towards others but also inward. She said, "It's not just about creating art, and that's it. It's about generating interaction around the art created. Talking through the images and exchanging opinions with the community.”

The w3b has allowed her to reach goals she never thought possible and to express herself freely in a collaborative environment of artists and collectors worldwide.