MÍRAME Fine Art Announces Future Fair Artists: Fabian Monge & Carolina Guillermet

  MÍRAME Fine Art is pleased to announce their Future Fair artists Fabian Monge and Carolina Guillermet, who will represent the gallery at Future Fair 2025 in New York. The art fair, which runs from May 7–10 during Frieze Week, brings together galleries with a focus on emerging and mid-career contemporary artists, creating a platform for new perspectives in today’s market. For MÍRAME, this selection is an opportunity to highlight two Costa Rican artists whose practices engage with ideas of perception, memory, and our relationship to our environment. Through distinct approaches, Monge and Guillermet each examine how environments—physical, psychological, and cultural—shape experience.  

Fabian Monge: Perception and the Construction of Reality

  Working across different series, Fabian Monge investigates the nature of perception. His work questions how reality is constructed through memory, expectation, and context. Fabian Monge, In_Situ, Acrylic on canvas Monge moves fluidly between structured compositions and intuitive gestures, creating paintings that examine how people see rather than simply what they see. In his chair series, for example, he returns to a single object: a wooden chair inherited from his family, used on childhood trips to the beach. The chair becomes a recurring structure through which he explores personal and collective memory, shifting between precise renderings and fractured, layered compositions. The object remains, but its function and meaning change depending on how it is framed within the work. In contrast, his BigBangContinues and Meaningless Data series introduce optical effects and disrupted perspectives, where layered colours and repeated forms create visual interruptions that challenge certainty. These works examine the limits of perception, questioning the reliability of what appears to be in front of us. His recent paintings continue this exploration, moving between control and instinct, system and spontaneity.  

Carolina Guillermet: The Language of Colour in Urban Space

  Carolina Guillermet engages with the visual and emotional impact of colour in urban environments, reflecting on how architecture and shifting landscapes shape identity. Her paintings draw on Latin American colour theory, referencing the way neighborhoods in San José and other cities across Latin America use painted facades to define space, communicate social shifts, and build cultural narratives. Carolina Guillermet, Untitled, Acrylic on canvas For Guillermet, colour is a compositional tool that is also a feeling. The emotions it evokes can stand on their own, shaping perception in ways that don’t require translation. Her work explores this immediacy, using layered architectural compositions to suggest shifting grids, pathways, and façades, evoking the rhythm and structure of a city. While rooted in the experience of Costa Rican urban landscapes, her work resonates with broader conversations about the relationship between place and identity. At Future Fair, Guillermet will present a selection of works that reflect this focus, including pieces that explore the contrast between painted architecture and natural light, creating compositions that shift between surface and depth. Her practice extends beyond canvas, and she will also exhibit textile-based work, introducing a material approach that builds on the same ideas of structure, layering, and memory.  

Future Fair Artists: A Shared Conversation on Place and Perspective

  Bringing Monge and Guillermet together in New York highlights two approaches to abstraction that, while distinct, speak to similar concerns. Monge’s engagement with perception and memory and Guillermet’s investigation into the role of colour in the urban environment both consider how physical and psychological spaces are constructed. Their work aligns with current directions in contemporary abstraction, where collectors and curators are increasingly drawn to work that is conceptually rigorous, materially ambitious, and engaged with regional histories in ways that resonate internationally. For MÍRAME, this selection of Future Fair artists reflects a continued commitment to positioning Costa Rican artists in global conversations. As the visibility of Latin American contemporary art continues to grow, Monge and Guillermet represent two artists contributing to that expansion, bringing perspectives shaped by Central American landscapes, histories, and traditions into dialogue with an international audience. MÍRAME Fine Art will present Fabian Monge and Carolina Guillermet at Future Fair, New York, May 7–10, 2025. 📍 Future Fair 2025 🗓️ May 7-10, 2025 | New York City 🌐 www.miramefineart.com Future Fair Artists: Fabian Monge & Carolina Guillermet

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