Artwork copyright Monika Bravo. Photo courtesy of the artist, 2025.

Artwork copyright Monika Bravo. Photo courtesy of the artist, 2025.

Artwork copyright Monika Bravo. Photo courtesy of the artist, 2025.

Artwork copyright Monika Bravo. Photo courtesy of the artist, 2025.

Artwork copyright Monika Bravo. Photo courtesy of the artist, 2025.

Artwork copyright Monika Bravo. Photo courtesy of the artist, 2025.

Artwork copyright Monika Bravo. Photo courtesy of the artist, 2025.

Artwork copyright Monika Bravo. Photo courtesy of the artist, 2025.

Artwork copyright Monika Bravo. Photo courtesy of the artist, 2025.

Artwork copyright Monika Bravo. Photo courtesy of the artist, 2025.

Artwork copyright Monika Bravo. Photo courtesy of the artist, 2025.

Artwork copyright Monika Bravo. Photo courtesy of the artist, 2025.

Arcana, 2025

Monika Bravo

Location: University of Washington, Seattle

About the Artwork

Arcana by Monika Bravo is a site-specific artwork that creates a dynamic, stage-like wrap-around environment. Vibrant glass panels interact with metal silhouettes, forming layered compositions that shift depending on the viewer's position. Inspired by Oskar Schlemmer's "Triadic Ballet" (1912) where the human form is reimagined as spheres, cones, and cylinders, Arcana translates this geometry into an architectural language of structure, motion, and perception for the University of Washington's Interdisciplinary Engineering Building. The artwork embraces and shapes an ever-changing experience through light and perspective.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with University of Washington.

About the Artist

Bravo was born in Bogotá, Colombia. She studied fashion design in Rome, Italy and Paris, France, and photography in London, England and New York City. She relocated to New York City in 1994, and arrived in Miami Beach in 2020. Eastern, ancestral, and cosmological traditions as well as psychological inquiries.