The contemporary Brasilian artist Monica Piloni works mainly in sculpture and with a focus on the human figure. The bodies that she creates appear distorted and strange, like amorphous creatures. Since 2004 she works with the mirror effect, the construction strategy that she applies to the bodies to create another dimension in the perception of the human figure.

At first, Monica Piloni used the repetitive mirror effect on a standing female figure. She cut the fiberglass dummy of a human body into various parts and then rebuild them. But the second time she made molds directly on her body, as a self-portrait. And this experience gave her much more freedom in creation because the anatomy model was always available for experiments. From there, the results of her sculptures became more complex and sophisticated. And even though Monica Piloni’s self-portrait at first appeared for convenience, over time it gained greater relevance and protagonism.