Munoz explores a mixture of different processes and techniques within her practice including photography, collage, painting, sculpture and mixed media combing these techniques alongside screen printing to make unique pieces of work including puppets and large-scale works.
Pilar Munoz’s work explores the concepts relating to the concept of time and how it affects the individuality of each human being. Munoz draws inspiration from daily routines, obsessions, worries, and thoughts. She explores a mixture of different processes and techniques within her practice, including photography, collage, painting, sculpture, and mixed media. She combines these techniques alongside screen printing to create unique pieces of work, including puppets and large-scale works.
Munoz graduated from the University of Seville, Spain, with a degree in Fine Art painting. She then went on to complete her Masters in Fine Art Printmaking at the Cambridge School of Art ARU. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Painters and Printmakers London and has work in many private and public collections around the world.
With the puppets, she has found a format for experimenting and transmitting how time makes individuals act in different ways. The human being has become an object, and time, the subject. As a result, the human being is managed by time. The puppet represents both the manipulator and the manipulated, taking on its own identity. Additionally, the puppet is made and frozen in one expression, i.e., its physical form, but in its movements – through space and time – it is seen to change. The puppets are made from different materials depending on what Munoz wants to convey at any given moment.
She also enjoys the experimentation of printing onto different materials and surfaces using non-traditional methods of printing. This is because she has a very clear idea about what she wants to see as an end result. At the same time, printmaking, as a technique, can be very frustrating in terms of achieving the perfect final result. That is why Munoz concentrates on the journey of the image, using elements of mistakes to create new pieces of work, and mixing them with sculpture, painting, or whatever she is enjoying at the time, in order to express what she needs to at that moment.
She is more interested in using the inspiration from what occurs at any given moment in time, rather than planning something out too precisely. For her, the accidental represents the essence of time.