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The artistic group Art al Quadrat was set up in 2002 and consists of the twin sisters Mònica and Gema del Rey Jordà (Valencia, 2 August 1982). They graduated in Fine Arts in 2005 and also obtained a Master’s in Artistic Production in 2008 from the University Polytechnic of Valencia.
Currently, Mònica holds a FPU Spanish research and teaching fellowship awarded by the Spanish government (MEC) from 2008-12 and Gema held a Fellowship of excellence 2010, awarded by the UPV, both at the Laboratory of Intermedia creations (UPV). Previously, they took part in the Erasmus programme at the Lahti Politechnic (Finland) in 2003 and the Promoe programme at the Universidad de Guadalajara (Mexico) in 2005.
They were awarded the 2nd prize in the III Muestra de Fotografía Joven Rodriguez Velo ‘03 and the 3rd in I Certamen De Vídeo-Creación 2010. They have participated in art exhibition and projections around the world such as Cool Stories III (SAM Bassel, Lincoln Centre NY, or Matadero Madrid) ArtSway Open 2011, UK’11, Artiade, Olympic of Visual Arts, Athens ‘04 Il corpo solitario, Italy ‘03, Afetos roubados no tempo in Brazil ‘05-‘06 amongst others. Their work is split into two different lines. One covers work of a personal nature and the other social and critical work where they have participated in some Public Art events.