MÒNICA LLAG

As a creative and art director, my work explores narratives across multiple disciplines, from fashion projects to set design. I build a complete conceptual and artistic language around each project through storytelling, guiding the entire process—from defining its identity to production—and reflecting both personal and collective stories.

DIE IMPROVISATION

Miniature Scenery

^{(Spatial Design)}

SILK

Scarves Collection

^{(Fashion Design)}

Die Improvisation is an intimate, narrative practice that explores the possibility of telling stories through space itself. In these miniature environments, architecture, voids, textures, and scale become expressive tools—a language that allows emotions and ideas to manifest without relying on words. What began as minimal interventions soon evolved into small stage-like worlds where stories could unfold: places shaped through fragile materials yet charged with symbolic weight. Each space became a vessel for internal landscapes, imagined narratives, and emotional movements, turning the act of building into a way of inhabiting and giving form to my own experiences.

This practice took on strength during my time in Berlin, at a moment marked by constant moves and the search for a place of my own. Changing homes again and again awakened a deeper need to examine my desires for safety, grounding, and stability—to find a roof and a floor that felt solid, even if only metaphorically. With no fixed studio and no possibility of working with large materials, I began creating from that state of transience and fragility. I collected small fragments of paper from everywhere: chocolate wrappers, sheet music found in flea markets, remnants of notebooks...

Paper became my primary material at the beginning. Through simple gestures—folding, bending, cutting, crumpling—I began shaping volumes that gradually transformed into inhabitable miniature spaces. At first minimalistic, they grew in depth and complexity as I discovered that each construction could host a story. Within them, I imagined characters, movements, atmospheres and inner narratives, allowing these improvised structures to become both a sanctuary and a reflection of my ongoing processes of adaptation and belonging.

Silk is born as a manifesto of resistance and radical tenderness, a form of spiritual anarchy, a declaration of freedom that rises against oppression and the mental chains imposed on our colonized minds and bodies. This vision materializes in a collection of unique silk scarves. Each piece embodies a new way of living—a portal into hybrid lifeforms, characters, and emotional landscapes. Through these dreamlike scenarios, a world unfolds from the depths, like a lost memory or one hidden in the layers of the unconscious.

Throughout history, garments that cover, veil, or mask the body have been far more than simple functional objects: they are cultural devices charged with meaning, capable of communicating belonging, dissent, power, desire, or spirituality.

Veiling and unveiling become a language of their own. Silk moves within the tension between light and shadow, where trauma meets care. Darkness becomes fertile ground, a portal for beginnings and a space where light can pierce, revealing hidden textures, traces, and subtle tremors of color. Transformation happens when we allow the shadow to speak and the light to nurture it.

How deep must one dive into the unknown to transform? It is only in the midst of darkness that we encounter the light—where we face our fears in order to overcome them.

Silk is also the result of an ideology.

I care about the world, about women, about global politics. I care about the freedom to choose— to veil or not to veil, to reveal or to conceal. I am interested in contrasts, opposites, and the ways they coexist and complement one another.

Silk emerges from the need to question the traditions that no longer serve us and to reform what must be reimagined. It aligns with anti-fascist, anti-sexist, anti-war, anti-discrimination, anti-racist, and anti-classist ideas. These principles shape the way I think, the way I create, and the way I move through the world.

My collection carries in the core a message— not just an aesthetic— but a set of beliefs. I am a radical, but I am also a peace lover. Silk holds both: the urgency to disrupt and the desire for harmony. There are no pure contrasts, only coexisting truths.

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